Increased functional protein expression using nucleotide sequence features enriched in highly expressed genes in zebrafish

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Horstick, Eric J ^a   Jordan, Diana C ^a   Bergeron, Sadie A ^a   Tabor, Kathryn M ^a   Serpe, Mihaela ^a   Feldman, Benjamin ^a   Burgess, Harold A ^a  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; TRANSFER RNA; CODON; ZEBRAFISH PROTEIN;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; INTRON; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSLATION INITIATION; TRANSPOSON; ZEBRA FISH; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; MICROINJECTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALIA; DANIO RERIO;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CODON; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MICROINJECTIONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

EID: 84930507124     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv035     Document Type: Article

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