Requirements for translation re-initiation in Escherichia coli: Roles of initiator tRNA and initiation factors IF2 and IF3

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1012-1026

  Yoo, Jae Ho ^a,b   RajBhandary, Uttam L ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Fermentas International Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; INITIATION FACTOR 2; INITIATION FACTOR 3; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE M13; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOSOME; RNA BINDING; TRANSLATION INITIATION;

BACTERIOPHAGE M13; BASE SEQUENCE; CHLORAMPHENICOL O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, REPORTER; LUCIFERASES, FIREFLY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PEPTIDE CHAIN INITIATION, TRANSLATIONAL; PROKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTOR-2; PROKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTOR-3; RIBOSOMES; RNA, TRANSFER, MET;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 38849115049     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2008.06104.x     Document Type: Article

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