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Escherichia coli tmRNA lacking pseudoknot 1 tags truncated proteins in vivo and in vitro.
RNA (New York, N.Y.) - 1 Jan 2009
Wower Iwona K, Zwieb Christian, Wower Jacek
Abstract excerpt
Transfer-messenger RNA (tmRNA) and protein SmpB facilitate trans-translation, a quality-control process that tags truncated proteins with short peptides recognized by a number of proteases and recycles ribosomes stalled at the 3' end of mRNA templates lacking stop codons. The tmRNA molecule is a hybrid of tRNA- and mRNA-like domains that are usually connected by four pseudoknots (pk1-pk4). Replacement of pk1 with...
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