Mutagenesis of the three bases preceding the start codon of the beta‐galactosidase mRNA and its effect on translation in Escherichia coli.

The 3′-Terminal Sequence of <i>Escherichia coli</i> 16S Ribosomal RNA: Complementarity to Nonsense Triplets and Ribosome Binding Sites

John Shine, L. Dalgarno · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1974 · 3.6K citations · Full text

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Improved Estimation of Secondary Structure in Ribonucleic Acids

Ignacio Tinoco, Philip N. Borer, Barbara Dengler et al. · Nature New Biology · 1973 · 2.3K citations

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In vitro gene fusions that join an enzymatically active beta-galactosidase segment to amino-terminal fragments of exogenous proteins: Escherichia coli plasmid vectors for the detection and cloning of translational initiation signals

M J Casadaban, J Chou, Stanley N. Cohen · Journal of Bacteriology · 1980 · 1K citations · Full text

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The tac promoter: a functional hybrid derived from the trp and lac promoters.

Harry Boer, LISA J. COMSTOCK, Mark Vasser · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1983 · 1K citations · Full text

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How ribosomes select initiator regions in mRNA: base pair formation between the 3' terminus of 16S rRNA and the mRNA during initiation of protein synthesis in Escherichia coli.

Joan A. Steitz, Karen S. Jakes · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1975 · 701 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Microbiology, Molecular Biology +17