Trade-offs between tRNA abundance and mRNA secondary structure support smoothing of translation elongation rate

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 3022-3032

  Gorochowski, Thomas E ^a,d   Ignatova, Zoya ^b,c   Bovenberg, Roel A L ^a   Roubos, Johannes A ^a  

^a DSM BIOTECHNOLOGY CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^d Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; TRANSFER RNA; BACTERIAL RNA; CODON; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; FUNGAL RNA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CODON; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RIBOSOME; RNA SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSLATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSLATION ELONGATION; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI K 12; GENETICS; KINETICS; METABOLISM;

CODON; ESCHERICHIA COLI K12; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; KINETICS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PEPTIDE CHAIN ELONGATION, TRANSLATIONAL; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, TRANSFER; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS;

EID: 84942284143     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv199     Document Type: Article

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