Unconventional initiator tRNAs sustain Escherichia coli

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 32, 2012, Pages 13058-13063

  Samhita, Laasya ^a   Shetty, Sunil ^a   Varshney, Umesh ^a,b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b JAWAHARLAL NEHRU CENTRE FOR ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Fidelity of initiation; Phenotypic plasticity; Ribosome

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; GUANINE; TRANSFER RNA;

ANTICODON; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE PRODUCT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MYCOPLASMA; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RHIZOBIUM; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; WILD TYPE;

ANTICODON; BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; PEPTIDE INITIATION FACTORS; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, TRANSFER, MET;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; MYCOPLASMA; RHIZOBIUM;

EID: 84864654172     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1207868109     Document Type: Article

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