Leaderless mRNAs in bacteria: surprises in ribosomal recruitment and translational control
Open Access
- 1 January 2002
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wiley in Molecular Microbiology
- Vol. 43 (1), 239-246
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2958.2002.02739.x
Abstract
It is commonly believed that the translational efficiency of prokaryotic mRNAs is intrinsically determined by both primary and secondary structures of their translational initiation regions. However,...Keywords
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