Cis control of gene expression in E.coli by ribosome queuing at an inefficient translational stop signal

EMBO Journal

Volumn 21, Issue 16, 2002, Pages 4357-4367

  Jin, Haining ^a   Björnsson, Asgeir ^b   Isaksson, Leif A ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b DECODE GENETICS   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Gene expression; Protein A ; Translation assay; Translation initiation; Translation termination

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DNA FLANKING REGION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC MODEL; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOSOME; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSLATION; STOP CODON; TRANSLATION INITIATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; CODON, TERMINATOR; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, REPORTER; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE CHAIN INITIATION, TRANSLATIONAL; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RIBOSOMES; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; STAPHYLOCOCCAL PROTEIN A;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0037102410     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/cdf424     Document Type: Article

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