Transfer-messenger RNA unfolds as it transits the ribosome

RNA

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 668-673

  Wower, Iwona K ^a   Zwieb, Christian ^b   Wower, Jacek ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Protein tagging; Ribosome rescue; RNA structure; tmRNA; trans translation

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE FUSION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC CODE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RIBOSOME; RNA TRANSLATION; STOP CODON;

BASE SEQUENCE; CODON, TERMINATOR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PEPTIDE CHAIN TERMINATION, TRANSLATIONAL; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RIBOSOMES; RNA, BACTERIAL;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 17844398246     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.7269305     Document Type: Article

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