Conversion of omnipotent translation termination factor eRF1 into ciliate-like UGA-only unipotent eRF1

EMBO Reports

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 881-886

  Seit Nebi, Alim ^a   Frolova, Ludmila ^a   Kisselev, Lev ^a  

^a ENGELHARDT INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; CYSTEINE; GUANINE; TRANSLATION TERMINATION FACTOR; URACIL;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CILIATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTIC CELL; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RIBOSOME; STOP CODON; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CODON; CYSTEINE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION; PEPTIDE TERMINATION FACTORS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RIBOSOMES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

CILIOPHORA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0036747332     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/embo-reports/kvf178     Document Type: Article

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