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Engineering ribosomal leaky scanning and upstream open reading frames for precise control of protein translation

Joshua P Ferreira1, William L Noderer1, Alexander J Diaz de Arce1

  • 1Department of Chemical Engineering; Stanford University; Stanford, CA USA.

Bioengineered
|March 19, 2014
PubMed

Keywords:
cellular stresspost-transcriptional regulationribosome scanningtranslation initiationuORFupstream open reading frames

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