Ambiguous decoding of the CUG codon alters the functionality of the Candida albicans translation initiation factor 4E

FEMS Yeast Research

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 558-569

  Feketová, Zuzana ^a   Mašek, Tomáš ^a   Vopálenský, Václav ^a   Pospíšek, Martin ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Candida albicans; CUG; eIF4E; translation

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; INITIATION FACTOR 4E; METHYLTRANSFERASE; CODON; FUNGAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CACDC33 GENE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CODON; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN VARIANT; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSLATION INITIATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ESSENTIAL GENE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RADIATION RESPONSE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TEMPERATURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CODON; EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTOR-4E; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, ESSENTIAL; GENES, FUNGAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 77954525750     PISSN: 15671356     EISSN: 15671364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1567-1364.2010.00629.x     Document Type: Article

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