Synonymous Codons Direct Cotranslational Folding toward Different Protein Conformations

Molecular Cell

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 341-351

  Buhr, Florian ^a   Jha, Sujata ^b   Thommen, Michael ^c   Mittelstaet, Joerg ^c   Kutz, Felicitas ^a   Schwalbe, Harald ^a   Rodnina, Marina V ^c   Komar, Anton A ^b,d,e  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^d CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA CRYSTALLIN; CELL PROTEIN; CYSTEINE; GAMMA B CRYSTALLIN; MESSENGER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CRYSTALLIN, GAMMAB; GAMMA CRYSTALLIN; PEPTIDE HYDROLASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CODON USAGE; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN QUALITY; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVERSED PHASE HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; ZEBU; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; KINETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SILENT MUTATION; SOLUBILITY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYSTEINE; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; GAMMA-CRYSTALLINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOTYPE; KINETICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA, MESSENGER; SILENT MUTATION; SOLUBILITY;

EID: 84957689489     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: 10974164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2016.01.008     Document Type: Article

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