A single amino acid change of translation termination factor eRF1 switches between bipotent and omnipotent stop-codon specificity

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 599-608

  Eliseev, Boris ^a   Kryuchkova, Polina ^a,b   Alkalaeva, Elena ^a   Frolova, Ludmila ^a  

^a ENGELHARDT INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; ALANINE; GUANINE; TRANSLATION TERMINATION FACTOR; URACIL;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CILIATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUKARYOTE; EUPLOTES; IN VITRO STUDY; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STOP CODON;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; CODON, TERMINATOR; EUPLOTES; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE CHAIN TERMINATION, TRANSLATIONAL; PEPTIDE TERMINATION FACTORS; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

CILIOPHORA; EUKARYOTA; EUPLOTES; EUPLOTES AEDICULATUS;

EID: 79551484186     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq759     Document Type: Article

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