Saturation mutagenesis of a +1 programmed frameshift-inducing mRNA sequence derived from a yeast retrotransposon

RNA

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1940-1947

  Guarraia, Carla ^a,b   Norris, Laura ^a   Raman, Ana ^a   Farabaugh, Philip J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b University of Marylandw Baltimore County   (United States)

Author keywords

Programmed frameshifting; Ribosome structure; Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 18S;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSLATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; FRAMESHIFTING, RIBOSOMAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; POINT MUTATION; RETROELEMENTS; RIBOSOMES; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 35548941390     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.735107     Document Type: Article

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