Genetic Codes with No Dedicated Stop Codon: Context-Dependent Translation Termination

Cell

Volumn 166, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 691-702

  Swart, Estienne Carl ^a   Serra, Valentina ^b   Petroni, Giulio ^b   Nowacki, Mariusz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; EUKARYOTIC RELEASE FACTOR 1; EUKARYOTIC RELEASE FACTOR 3; GLUTAMINE; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSFER RNA; TRANSLATION TERMINATION FACTOR; TRYPTOPHAN; TYROSINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; AMINO ACID; STOP CODON;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; GENETIC CODE; HUMAN; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOSOME; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSLATION; STOP CODON; TRANSLATION TERMINATION; ANIMAL; BEETLE; BRADYRHIZOBIUM; CILIATE; GENETICS; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; BEETLES; BRADYRHIZOBIUM; CILIOPHORA; CODON, TERMINATOR; GENETIC CODE; RNA, TRANSFER; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 84978902228     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: 10974172     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2016.06.020     Document Type: Article

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