A novel RNA structural motif in the selenocysteine insertion element of eukaryotic selenoprotein mRNAs

RNA

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 367-379

  Walczak, Robert ^a,b   Westhof, Eric ^d   Carbon, Philippe ^d   Krol, Alain ^c  

^a INST DE BIOL MOLEC ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GDA SK   (Poland)

^c INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

^d NONE

Author keywords

3' UTR; mRNA structure; non Watson Crick base pairs; SECIS element; selenium; selenocysteine; structural motif; translation

Indexed keywords

GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; MESSENGER RNA; SELENIUM DERIVATIVE; SELENOCYSTEINE; SELENOPROTEIN; THYROXINE DEIODINASE;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; EUKARYOTE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSLATION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; HUMANS; HYDROXYL RADICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR PROBES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEINS; RATS; RNA, MESSENGER; SELENOCYSTEINE; SELENOPROTEIN P; SELENOPROTEIN W; SELENOPROTEINS;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0029805895     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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