TmRNA-mediated trans-translation as the major ribosome rescue system in a bacterial cell

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue APR, 2014, Pages

  Himeno, Hyouta ^a   Kurita, Daisuke ^a   Muto, Akira ^a  

^a HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; AMINOACYL TRANSFER RNA; BINDING PROTEIN; CLEAVAGE AND POLYADENYLATION SPECIFICITY FACTOR; ELONGATION FACTOR; ELONGATION FACTOR TU; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; MESSENGER RNA; PEPTIDE; PEPTIDYLTRANSFERASE; POLYPEPTIDE; PROTEIN; PROTEINASE; RIBONUCLEASE P; RIBOSOME RECYCLING FACTOR; SMP B PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINOACYLATION; ANTICODON; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL TRANSLOCATION; CODON; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; EVOLUTIONARY HOMOLOGY; HYDROLYSIS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS REGULATION; REVIEW; RNA TRANSLATION; TRANS TRANSLATION;

EID: 84898048396     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2014.00066     Document Type: Review

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