Acquisition of a stable mutation in metY allows efficient initiation from an amber codon in Escherichia coli

Microbiology

Volumn 151, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1741-1750

  Das, Gautam ^a   Dineshkumar, T K ^a   Thanedar, Swapna ^a   Varshney, Umesh ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMPHENICOL ACETYLTRANSFERASE; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; START CODON; STOP CODON; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ANTICODON; BASE SEQUENCE; CODON, TERMINATOR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DOSAGE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE CHAIN INITIATION, TRANSLATIONAL; PLASMIDS; POINT MUTATION; REC A RECOMBINASES; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, TRANSFER, MET;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 21344460285     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.27915-0     Document Type: Article

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