An overlapping genetic code for frameshifted overlapping genes in Drosophila mitochondria: Antisense antitermination tRNAs UAR insert serine

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 298, Issue , 2012, Pages 51-76

  Seligmann, Hervé ^a,b,c  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Alignment homology; Condensation of coding information; Expressed sequence tags (EST); Synonymous codon optimization; TRNA synthetase

Indexed keywords

SERINE; TRANSFER RNA;

GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; HOMOLOGY; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; OPTIMIZATION; PROTEIN; RNA;

ADAPTATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CODON; DROSOPHILA; GENETIC CODE; GENOME SIZE; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RIBOSOMAL FRAMESHIFTING; RNA TRANSLATION; STOP CODON;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CODON; DROSOPHILA; GENES, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENES, OVERLAPPING; GENETIC CODE; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA, TRANSFER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SERINE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

PRIMATES;

EID: 84855759193     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2011.12.026     Document Type: Article

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