Prokaryotic-style frameshifting in a plant translation system: Conservation of an unusual single-tRNA slippage event

EMBO Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 15, 2003, Pages 3941-3950

  Napthine, Sawsan ^a   Vidakovic, Marijana ^a   Girnary, Roseanne ^a   Namy, Olivier ^a   Brierley, Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Frameshifting; Pseudoknot; Ribosome; Translation; TRNA

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; ASPARAGINE; GUANINE; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXTRACTION; GENETIC CODE; HOST; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RIBOSOMAL FRAMESHIFTING; RIBOSOME; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WHEAT;

BASE SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FRAMESHIFTING, RIBOSOMAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PLANTS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, TRANSFER;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 0043026859     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/cdg365     Document Type: Article

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