Productive mRNA stem loop-mediated transcriptional slippage: Crucial features in common with intrinsic terminators

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

Volumn 112, Issue 16, 2015, Pages E1984-E1993

  Penno, Christophe ^a   Sharma, Virag ^a   Coakley, Arthur ^a   Motherway, Mary O'Connell ^a   Van Sinderen, Douwe ^a   Lubkowska, Lucyna ^b   Kireeva, Maria L ^b   Kashlev, Mikhail ^b   Baranov, Pavel V ^a   Atkins, John F ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Frameshifting; Heteropolymeric slippage prone motifs; Stem loop stimulator; Transcriptional realignment

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CYTIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; MESSENGER RNA; RNA POLYMERASE; URIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA RNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA TEMPLATE; EBOLAVIRUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IN VITRO STUDY; INVERTED REPEAT; NONHUMAN; PARAMYXOVIRIDAE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIBOSOMAL FRAMESHIFTING; RNA PURIFICATION; RNA STABILITY; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSPORT; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; TRANSCRIPTIONAL SLIPPAGE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMISTRY; CHLOROFLEXI; CHROMOSOME INVERSION; CONFORMATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIF; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REGULATOR GENE;

EBOLA VIRUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PARAMYXOVIRIDAE; ROSEIFLEXUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CHLOROFLEXI; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIFS; RNA, MESSENGER; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE INVERSION; TERMINATOR REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84928253139     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1418384112     Document Type: Article

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