Article
Efficient initiation of translation at non-AUG triplets in plant cells.
The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology - 1 Sept 1992
Gordon K, Fütterer J, Hohn T
Abstract excerpt
The efficiency of translation initiation at triplets differing at one residue from AUG was tested by transient expression in protoplasts from two different plant species. All possible alternative codons were tested. Some triplets showed significant CAT activity, with CUG (30% of the AUG activity) being most active. Most others had between 5 and 15% of the activity obtained from AUG, whereas UUG and AUC yielded...
Topics
- Base Sequence
- Cells, Cultured
- Chloramphenicol O-Acetyltransferase
- Codon
- Genetic Variation
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Peptide Chain Initiation, Translational
- Plants
- Plants, Toxic
- Protein Biosynthesis
- Recombinant Proteins