Alterations in the peptidyltransferase and decoding domains of ribosomal RNA suppress mutations in the elongation factor G gene

RNA

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1166-1173

  Koosha, Homa ^a   Cameron, Dale ^a   Andrews, Kim ^a   Dahlberg, Albert E ^b   March, Paul E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

EF G mutants; Ribosomes; rRNA mutants; Translocation

Indexed keywords

ELONGATION FACTOR G; PEPTIDYLTRANSFERASE; RIBOSOME RNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RNA TRANSLATION; RNA TRANSPORT; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

BLOTTING, WESTERN; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HYDROXYLAMINE; MUTATION; MUTATION, MISSENSE; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTOR G; PEPTIDYL TRANSFERASES; PHENOTYPE; PLASMIDS; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 23S; TEMPERATURE; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0033866474     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355838200000534     Document Type: Article

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