Harvard Catalyst Profiles

Contact, publication, and social network information about Harvard faculty and fellows.

Frameshifting, Ribosomal

"Frameshifting, Ribosomal" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

A directed change in translational READING FRAMES that allows the production of a single protein from two or more OVERLAPPING GENES. The process is programmed by the nucleotide sequence of the MRNA and is sometimes also affected by the secondary or tertiary mRNA structure. It has been described mainly in VIRUSES (especially RETROVIRUSES); RETROTRANSPOSONS; and bacterial insertion elements but also in some cellular genes.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Frameshifting, Ribosomal" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Frameshifting, Ribosomal" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
To see the data from this visualization as text,
Related Networks
People
Explore
_
Similar Concepts
_
Top Journals 
_
Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.