A tripeptide 'anticodon' deciphers stop codons in messenger RNA

Nature

Volumn 403, Issue 6770, 2000, Pages 680-684

  Ito, Koichi ^a   Uno, Makiko ^a   Nakamura, Yoshikazu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA;

ANTICODON; ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; STOP CODON;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACIDS; ANTICODON; BINDING SITES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CODON, TERMINATOR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGOPEPTIDES; PEPTIDE TERMINATION FACTORS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA, MESSENGER;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0034628438     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35001115     Document Type: Article

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