Two different and highly organized mechanisms of translation initiation in the archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus

Extremophiles

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 175-179

  Tolstrup, Niels ^a   Sensen, Christoph W ^b   Garrett, Roger A ^c   Clausen, Ib Groth ^a  

^a NOVO NORDISK A S   (Denmark)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Crenarchaeota; Shine Dalgarno; Sulfolobus solfataricus; Transcription; Translation initiation

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEAL DNA; ARCHAEAL RNA; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; GENE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PROMOTER REGION; RNA TRANSLATION; START CODON; SULFOLOBUS;

BASE SEQUENCE; CODON, INITIATOR; DNA, ARCHAEAL; GENES, ARCHAEAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; PEPTIDE CHAIN INITIATION, TRANSLATIONAL; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA, ARCHAEAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SULFOLOBUS;

EID: 0034202785     PISSN: 14310651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s007920070032     Document Type: Article

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