Halting a cellular production line: Responses to ribosomal pausing during translation

Biology of the Cell

Volumn 99, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 475-487

  Buchan, J Ross ^a,b   Stansfield, Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Frameshifting; Peptidyl tRNA hydrolase; Ribosomal drop off; Ribosome; Transfer messenger RNA (tmRNA); Translation

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RNA; ENDONUCLEASE; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN DOM34P; PROTEIN HBS1P; PROTEOME; RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTICODON; CELL GROWTH; EUKARYOTE; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN METABOLISM; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REGULATORY RNA SEQUENCE; REVIEW; RIBOSOMAL FRAMESHIFTING; RIBOSOME; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA PROCESSING; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA SYNTHESIS; RNA TRANSLATION; RNA TRANSPORT;

CODON, TERMINATOR; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RIBOSOMES; TIME FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA;

EID: 34548446795     PISSN: 02484900     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BC20070037     Document Type: Review

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