Stimulation of stop codon readthrough: Frequent presence of an extended 3′ RNA structural element

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 39, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 6679-6691

  Firth, Andrew E ^a   Wills, Norma M ^b   Gesteland, Raymond F ^b   Atkins, John F ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BENYVIRUS; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; FUROVIRUS; GENE; KELCH GENE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PECLUVIRUS; PLANT VIRUS; POMOVIRUS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STOP CODON; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TOBRAVIRUS; ALPHA VIRUS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EASTERN EQUINE ENCEPHALOMYELITIS VIRUS; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; REGULATORY RNA SEQUENCE; VENEZUELAN EQUINE ENCEPHALOMYELITIS ALPHAVIRUS;

BENYVIRUS; EQUIDAE; FUROVIRUS; PECLUVIRUS; POMOVIRUS; TOBRAVIRUS;

VIRUS RNA;

ALPHAVIRUS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CODON, TERMINATOR; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS, EASTERN EQUINE; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS, VENEZUELAN EQUINE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT VIRUSES; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, RIBONUCLEIC ACID; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

EID: 80055074497     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkr224     Document Type: Article

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