Comparative studies on sequence characteristics around translation initiation codon in four eukaryotes

Journal of Genetics

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 317-322

  Liu, Qingpo ^a   Xue, Qingzhong ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; Drosophila; Gene expression level; Rice; Sequence characteristic; Translation initiator codon

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RICE; RNA TRANSLATION; START CODON;

ANIMALS; ARABIDOPSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; CODON, INITIATOR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; ORYZA SATIVA; PEPTIDE CHAIN INITIATION, TRANSLATIONAL;

ARABIDOPSIS; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 31544461790     PISSN: 00221333     EISSN: 00221333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02715803     Document Type: Article

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