Proximity of the start codon to a leaderless mRNA's 5′ terminus is a strong positive determinant of ribosome binding and expression in Escherichia coli

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 192, Issue 24, 2010, Pages 6482-6485

  Krishnan, Karthik M ^a,b   Van Etten III, William J ^a,c   Janssen, Gary R ^a  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c BioTeam Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONSTRUCT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPORTER GENE; RIBOSOME; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; START CODON;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; CODON, INITIATOR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; PROTEIN BINDING; RIBOSOMAL PROTEINS; RIBOSOMES; RNA, MESSENGER;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 78649637278     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00756-10     Document Type: Article

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