A predictive biophysical model of translationalcoupling to coordinate and control protein expressionin bacterial operons

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 43, Issue 14, 2015, Pages 7137-7151

  Tian, Tian ^a   Salis, Howard M ^a  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOPHYSICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OPERON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN UNFOLDING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA STRUCTURE; THERMODYNAMICS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSLATION INITIATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL ENGINEERING; CHEMISTRY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RIBOSOME; RNA TRANSLATION;

MESSENGER RNA;

CELL ENGINEERING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MODELS, GENETIC; OPERON; PEPTIDE CHAIN INITIATION, TRANSLATIONAL; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RIBOSOMES; RNA, MESSENGER; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84984985078     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv635     Document Type: Article

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