How translational accuracy influences reading frame maintenance

EMBO Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1427-1434

  Farabaugh, Philip J ^a   Björk, Glenn R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Dual error model; Frameshift; Missense errors; Translation; Yardstick model

Indexed keywords

AMINOACYL TRANSFER RNA; MESSENGER RNA;

ANTICODON; ARTICLE; ERROR; GENE TRANSLOCATION; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOLECULAR MODEL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; RIBOSOMAL FRAMESHIFTING; RNA TRANSLATION;

EID: 0343665638     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/18.6.1427     Document Type: Article

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