Analyzing and enhancing mRNA translational efficiency in an Escherichia coli in vitro expression system

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 318, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 601-614

  Voges, Dieter ^a   Watzele, Manfred ^b   Nemetz, Cordula ^b   Wizemann, Sabine ^b   Buchberger, Bernd ^b  

^a Biomax Informatics AG   (Germany)

^b ROCHE DIAGNOSTICS GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Expression efficiency; In vitro translation system; mRNA secondary structure; mRNA translation; Prediction

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; MESSENGER RNA;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE EXPRESSION SYSTEM; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSLATION; START CODON; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; CODON; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, BACTERIAL; MODELS, GENETIC; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; PROBABILITY; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, MESSENGER; ROC CURVE; TEMPERATURE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 2142639387     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2004.04.064     Document Type: Article

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