An unstructured 5′-coding region of the prfA mRNA is required for efficient translation

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1818-1827

  Loh, Edmund ^a,c,d   Memarpour, Faranak ^a   Vaitkevicius, Karolis ^a   Kallipolitis, Birgitte H ^b   Johansson, Jörgen ^a   Sondén, Berit ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c Section of Microbiology   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; VIRULENCE FACTOR; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PRFA PROTEIN, LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; TRANSLATION TERMINATION FACTOR;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IN VITRO STUDY; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LOW TEMPERATURE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPORTER GENE; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSLATION; THERMORECEPTOR; THERMOREGULATION; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RIBOSOME; RNA STABILITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CODON; GENES, REPORTER; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PEPTIDE TERMINATION FACTORS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN STABILITY; RIBOSOMES; RNA STABILITY; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 84857870455     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkr850     Document Type: Article

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