In vivo evidence for the prokaryotic model of extended codon-anticodon interaction in translation initiation

EMBO Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 651-656

  Esposito, Donna ^a,b,d   Fey, Julien P ^a,c,e   Eberhard, Stephan ^c   Hicks, Amanda J ^a   Stern, David B ^a  

^a United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service and Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c INST DE BIOLOGIE PHYSICO CHIMIQUE   (France)

^d CHARLES RIVER LABORATORIES   (United States)

^e OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anticodon; Chlamydomonas; Chloroplast; Initiator tRNA

Indexed keywords

AMINOACYLATION; ANTICODON; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHLOROPLAST; CODON USAGE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TRANSLATION INITIATION;

ALGAL PROTEINS; ANIMALS; ANTICODON; BASE PAIRING; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHLOROPLASTS; CODON; CYTOCHROMES; CYTOCHROMES F; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, TRANSFER;

ALGAE; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHLOROPHYTA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0037415683     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/cdg072     Document Type: Article

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