Essential elements in the coding region of mRNA for translation of ColE2 Rep protein

Plasmid

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 36-44

  Nagase, T ^a   Nishio, S ^a   Itoh, T ^a  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coding region; ColE2 Rep mRNA; Mutagenesis; SD sequence; Translation enhancer; Translation initiation

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RNA; HELICASE; MESSENGER RNA; PLASMID DNA;

ARTICLE; CODON; DNA REPLICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; RNA TRANSLATION; TRANSLATION INITIATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; CODON, INITIATOR; DNA HELICASES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 37549020292     PISSN: 0147619X     EISSN: 10959890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plasmid.2007.07.003     Document Type: Article

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