An equilibrium-dependent retroviral mRNA switch regulates translational recoding

Nature

Volumn 480, Issue 7378, 2011, Pages 561-564

  Houck Loomis, Brian ^a   Durney, Michael A ^b   Salguero, Carolina ^b   Shankar, Neelaabh ^b   Nagle, Julia M ^b   Goff, Stephen P ^a   D'Souza, Victoria M ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

GENE EXPRESSION; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PROTEIN; SIGNAL; VIRUS;

ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SWITCHING; GENETIC CODE; LEUKEMIA VIRUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON TRANSPORT; RETROVIRUS; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; GENES, SWITCH; LEUKEMIA VIRUS, MURINE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA, VIRAL;

MURINAE;

EID: 84355161447     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature10657     Document Type: Article

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