Yeast Phenotypic Assays on Translational Control

Methods in Enzymology

Volumn 429, Issue , 2007, Pages 105-137

  Lee, Bumjun ^a   Udagawa, Tsuyoshi ^a   Singh, Chingakham Ranjit ^a   Asano, Katsura ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; CELL EXTRACT; HISTIDINE; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; GCN4 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; LETHAL MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; RIBOSOME; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; START CODON; TRANSLATION INITIATION; TRANSLATION REGULATION; ARTICLE; DENSITY GRADIENT CENTRIFUGATION; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYSOME; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RNA TRANSLATION;

EUKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

CENTRIFUGATION, DENSITY GRADIENT; CODON, INITIATOR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENETIC VECTORS; PEPTIDE CHAIN INITIATION, TRANSLATIONAL; PHENOTYPE; POLYRIBOSOMES; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

EID: 38449117775     PISSN: 00766879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0076-6879(07)29006-8     Document Type: Chapter

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