Translation initiation with 70S ribosomes: An alternative pathway for leaderless mRNAs

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 3354-3363

  Moll, Isabella ^b   Hirokawa, Go ^a   Kiel, Michael C ^a   Kaji, Akira ^a   Bläsi, Udo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Vienna Biocenter   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS LINKING; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOSOME; RNA TRANSLATION; TRANSLATION INITIATION; WILD TYPE; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MUTATION; START CODON;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; CODON, INITIATOR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; PEPTIDE CHAIN INITIATION, TRANSLATIONAL; RIBOSOMES; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 3042690803     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkh663     Document Type: Article

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