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One gene, two proteins: coordinated production of a copper chaperone by differential transcript formation and translational frameshifting in Escherichia coli.
Molecular microbiology - 1 Nov 2017
Drees Steffen L, Klinkert Birgit, Helling Stefan, Beyer Dominik F, Marcus Katrin, Narberhaus Franz, Lübben Mathias
Abstract excerpt
Programmed ribosomal frameshifting (PRF) is a translational anomaly causing the ribosome to shift into an alternative reading frame. PRFs are common in viral genomes, using a single nucleotide sequence to code for two proteins in overlapping frames. In bacteria and eukaryota, PRFs are less frequent. We report on a PRF in the copper detoxification system of Escherichia coli where a metallochaperone is generated...
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