The stringency of start codon selection in the filamentous fungus Neurospora crassa

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 288, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 9549-9562

  Wei, Jiajie ^a   Zhang, Ying ^a   Ivanov, Ivaylo P ^b   Sachs, Matthew S ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUKARYOTIC CELLS; FILAMENTOUS FUNGI; FIREFLY LUCIFERASE; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; REGULATORY FUNCTIONS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDES; START CODONS; TRANSCRIPTOMES;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

EFFICIENCY;

ADENOSINE; FIREFLY LUCIFERASE; GUANOSINE; MESSENGER RNA; URIDINE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CODON; CODON USAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; IN VITRO STUDY; LUC GENE; NEAR COGNATE CODON; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; RETICULOCYTE LYSATE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSLATION; START CODON; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSLATION INITIATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CELL-FREE SYSTEM; CODON; CODON, INITIATOR; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; PEPTIDES; PLASMIDS; PREVALENCE; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 84875976826     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M112.447177     Document Type: Article

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