Mechanism of protein biosynthesis in mammalian mitochondria

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Gene Regulatory Mechanisms

Volumn 1819, Issue 9-10, 2012, Pages 1035-1054

  Christian, Brooke E ^a,b   Spremulli, Linda L ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Elongation; Initiation; Mammal; Mitochondrion; Protein synthesis; Termination

Indexed keywords

ELONGATION FACTOR G; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; TRANSFER RNA;

CELL MEMBRANE; ENERGY METABOLISM; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; HUMAN; MITOCHONDRION; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; RIBOSOME; RNA BINDING; RNA TRANSLATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSLATION INITIATION;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MITOCHONDRIA; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANES; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; PROKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTOR-2; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 28S; RNA, TRANSFER, MET;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84864319440     PISSN: 18749399     EISSN: 18764320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagrm.2011.11.009     Document Type: Review

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