A Salvage Pathway for Protein Synthesis: tmRNA and Trans-Translation

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 57, Issue , 2003, Pages 101-123

  Withey, Jeffrey H ^a   Friedman, David I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

10Sa RNA; Ribosomes; RNA structure; SsrA; Translation

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; MESSENGER RNA; PHOSPHORIBOSYL PYROPHOSPHATE; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; TRANSFER RNA;

AMINOACYLATION; CODON; DNA TEMPLATE; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RECEPTOR OCCUPANCY; REVIEW; RIBOSOME; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSLATION; STOP CODON; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

CODON; ENDOPEPTIDASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEINS; RIBOSOMES; RNA, BACTERIAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0242523959     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.57.030502.090945     Document Type: Review

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