Experimental determination of translational start sites resolves uncertainties in genomic open reading frame predictions - Application to Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Microbiology

Volumn 155, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 186-197

  Smollett, Katherine L ^a   Fivian Hughes, Amanda S ^a   Smith, Joanne E ^a   Chang, Arichi ^a   Rao, Tara ^a,b   Davis, Elaine O ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; LEXA PROTEIN; PROTEIN RV1955; PROTEIN SIGC; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; EPITOPE; LEXA PROTEIN, BACTERIA; SERINE PROTEINASE; SIGC PROTEIN, BACTERIA; SIGMA FACTOR;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITOPE MAPPING; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE MAPPING; GENOME ANALYSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CHEMISTRY; EVALUATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMID; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; START CODON;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CODON, INITIATOR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EPITOPES; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SIGMA FACTOR;

EID: 61449122153     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.022889-0     Document Type: Article

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