Small, synthetic, GC-rich mRNA stem-loop modules 5′ proximal to the AUG start-codon predictably tune gene expression in yeast

Microbial Cell Factories

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Lamping, Erwin ^a   Niimi, Masakazu ^a   Cannon, Richard D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Inhibition of translation initiation; mRNA stem loops; Negative interactions of multiple cloning sites; Post transcriptional regulation of gene expression; Regulation of translation; Yeast 43S preinitiation complex

Indexed keywords

CDR1P PROTEIN; FUNGAL RNA; MESSENGER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DOWN REGULATION; FUNGAL MEMBRANE; GC RICH SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN TARGETING; START CODON; TRANSLATION INITIATION; YEAST;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BASE PAIRING; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CODON, INITIATOR; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VECTORS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, MESSENGER; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; THERMODYNAMICS;

CANDIDA ALBICANS;

EID: 84880907966     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2859-12-74     Document Type: Article

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