Characterization of a Methanosarcina acetivorans mutant unable to translate UAG as pyrrolysine

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 56-66

  Mahapatra, Anirban ^a   Patel, Asmita ^a   Soares, Jitesh A ^a   Larue, Ross C ^a   Zhang, Jun Kai ^b   Metcalf, William W ^b   Krzycki, Joseph A ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; LYSINE DERIVATIVE; METHANOL; METHYLAMINE; METHYLTRANSFERASE; PUROMYCIN; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; CODON; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE DELETION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENOMICS; GROWTH; IMMUNOBLOTTING; METABOLISM; METHANOSARCINA; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA TRANSLATION; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACYL-TRNA SYNTHETASES; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; CODON; LYSINE; METHANOSARCINA; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OPEN READING FRAMES; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, TRANSFER;

METHANOSARCINA; METHANOSARCINA ACETIVORANS;

EID: 33645068211     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2005.04927.x     Document Type: Article

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