A codon window in mRNA downstream of the initiation codon where NGG codons give strongly reduced gene expression in Escherichia coli

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 32, Issue 17, 2004, Pages 5198-5205

  Gonzalez de Valdivia, Ernesto I ^a   Isaksson, Leif A ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE POOL; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA STRUCTURE; START CODON; CHEMISTRY; CODON; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; STAPHYLOCOCCUS PHAGE 3A;

CODON; CODON, INITIATOR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 4944224262     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkh857     Document Type: Article

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