Close spacing of AUG initiation codons confers dicistronic character on a eukaryotic mRNA

RNA

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1338-1349

  Matsuda, Daiki ^a   Dreher, Theo W ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Leaky scanning; Luciferase reporter; Ribosome scanning, mechanism; Translation initiation, initiation coupling; Turnip yellow mosaic virus

Indexed keywords

LUCIFERASE; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEOTIDE; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; CISTRON; CONTROLLED STUDY; COWPEA; DNA FLANKING REGION; ELECTROPORATION; EUKARYOTE; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOPLAST; REPORTER GENE; RIBOSOME; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSLATION; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE; START CODON; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TURNIP YELLOW MOSAIC VIRUS; WHEAT GERM;

BASE SEQUENCE; CODON; DNA PRIMERS; GENES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE CHAIN INITIATION, TRANSLATIONAL; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RIBOSOMES; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EUKARYOTA; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; TURNIP YELLOW MOSAIC VIRUS;

EID: 33745614073     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.67906     Document Type: Article

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