Efficient decoding of the UAG triplet as a full-fledged sense codon enhances the growth of a prfA-deficient strain of Escherichia coli

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 194, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2606-2613

  Ohtake, Kazumasa ^a   Sato, Aya ^a,c   Mukai, Takahito ^a   Hino, Nobumasa ^a   Yokoyama, Shigeyuki ^a,b   Sakamoto, Kensaku ^a  

^a RIKEN   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c RIKEN KOBE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GLUTAMINE; PROTEOME; SUCB PROTEIN; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CODON USAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY RESOURCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE REPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSLATION; STOP CODON;

CELL PROLIFERATION; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MUTATION; PEPTIDE TERMINATION FACTORS; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, TRANSFER;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84861409697     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00195-12     Document Type: Article

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