Ribosome profiling reveals the what, when, where and how of protein synthesis

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 651-664

  Brar, Gloria A ^a,c   Weissman, Jonathan S ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; RIBOSOME RNA; PROTEIN;

ACCURACY; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; INFORMATION; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; RIBOSOME; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

BASE SEQUENCE; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEINS; RIBOSOMES; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

EID: 84945497191     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm4069     Document Type: Review

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