Natural reassignment of CUU and CUA sense codons to alanine in Ashbya mitochondria

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 499-508

  Ling, Jiqiang ^a   Daoud, Rachid ^b   Lajoie, Marc J ^c,d   Church, George M ^d   Soll, Dieter ^a   Lang, B Franz ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Universite de Montreal   (Canada)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; ALANINE TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; LEUCINE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; AMINO ACID TRANSFER RNA LIGASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; ASHBYA GOSSYPII; BASE PAIRING; BIOINFORMATICS; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; EREMOTHECIUM; GENE ASSIGNMENT; GENE MUTATION; IN VIVO STUDY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RIBOSWITCH; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; EREMOTHECIUM GOSSYPII; GENETIC CODE; IN VITRO STUDY; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR CLONING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 84891815610     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt842     Document Type: Article

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