Synthetic biology challenges long-held hypotheses in translation, codon bias and transcription

Biotechnology Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 835-845

  Forster, Anthony C ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Aminoacyl tRNA; Codon bias; Ribosome; Transcription termination; Translation

Indexed keywords

AMINOACYL-TRNA; BEST MODEL; BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE; BIOTECHNOLOGY APPLICATIONS; CLASS II; CODON BIAS; E. COLI; EQUIVALENT CONCENTRATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES; GENETIC CODE; IN-VITRO; IN-VIVO; NUCLEOPHILICITIES; PROTEIN STRUCTURES; RATE LIMITING; RIBOSOME; RNA POLYMERASE; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; TESTING HYPOTHESIS; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION;

AMINO ACIDS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; EQUIVALENCE CLASSES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

BIOLOGY;

RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSFER RNA;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; CODON; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HYDROLYSIS; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOPHILICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; RIBOSOME; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSLATION; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; CODON; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, TRANSFER, AMINO ACYL; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84863300678     PISSN: 18606768     EISSN: 18607314     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/biot.201200002     Document Type: Review

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