Determinants of translation efficiency and accuracy

Molecular Systems Biology

Volumn 7, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Gingold, Hila ^a   Pilpel, Yitzhak ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

codon usage; translation accuracy; translation efficiency; tRNA

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PROTEOME; TRANSCRIPTOME; TRANSFER RNA; AMINO ACID;

ACCURACY; ADAPTATION; CODON; GENE SEQUENCE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; RNA TRANSLATION; THERMODYNAMICS; CONFORMATION; EVOLUTION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

AMINO ACIDS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CODON; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENETIC CODE; HUMANS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN MODIFICATION, TRANSLATIONAL; PROTEOME; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, TRANSFER;

EID: 79954456859     PISSN: 17444292     EISSN: 17444292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/msb.2011.14     Document Type: Review

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