Antagonistic signals within the COX2 mRNA coding sequence control its translation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae mitochondria

RNA

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 419-431

  Williams, Elizabeth H ^a   Fox, Thomas D ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytochrome c oxidase; Ribosome; Secondary structure; Yeast

Indexed keywords

CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; CODON; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; RIBOSOME; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSLATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; YEAST;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, MESSENGER; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0037377349     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.2182903     Document Type: Article

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