Low Complexity Regions behave as tRNA sponges to help co-translational folding of plasmodial proteins

FEBS Letters

Volumn 584, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 448-454

  Frugier, Magali ^a   Bour, Tania ^a   Ayach, Maya ^a   Santos, Manuel A S ^b   Rudinger Thirion, Joëlle ^a   Théobald Dietrich, Anne ^a   Pizzi, Elizabetta ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^c ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

Co translational folding; Low complexity regions; Plasmodium falciparum

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; TRANSFER RNA;

ACCURACY; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE INSERTION; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; RIBOSOME; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSLATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACYL-TRNA SYNTHETASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RIBOSOMES; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, TRANSFER;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 71549152207     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2009.11.004     Document Type: Review

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