Inhibition of translation by consecutive rare leucine codons in E. coli: Absence of effect of varying mRNA stability

Gene Expression

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 97-106

  Shu, Ping ^a   Dai, Huacheng ^a,b   Gao, Wenwu ^a,c   Goldman, Emanuel ^a  

^a RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Codon bias; CUA leucine codon; Inhibition by rare codons; RNase III and mRNA stability; T7 expression systems

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; LEUCINE; MESSENGER RNA; RIBONUCLEASE III; RIFAMPICIN; RNA POLYMERASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; RNA PROCESSING; RNA STABILITY; RNA TRANSLATION; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; BASE SEQUENCE; CODON; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LEUCINE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 33749322772     PISSN: 10522166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3727/000000006783991881     Document Type: Article

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