The Escherichia coli argU10(Ts) phenotype is caused by a reduction in the cellular level of the argU tRNA for the rare codons AGA and AGG

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 186, Issue 17, 2004, Pages 5899-5905

  Sakamoto, Kensaku ^a,b   Ishimaru, Satoshi ^c,f   Kobayashi, Takatsugu ^a   Walker, James R ^e   Yokoyama, Shigeyuki ^a,b,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b RIKEN YOKOHAMA INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d RIKEN HARIMA INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^f OSAKA BIOSCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; ARGININE TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; ELONGATION FACTOR; ELONGATION FACTOR TU; GUANINE; TRANSFER RNA;

AMINOACYLATION; ARGU10 GENE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RNA TRANSLATION; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

ARGININE-TRNA LIGASE; BASE SEQUENCE; CODON; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, ESSENTIAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTOR TU; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, TRANSFER, ARG; TEMPERATURE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 4344642721     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.186.17.5899-5905.2004     Document Type: Article

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