Solution structure of mRNA hairpins promoting selenocysteine incorporation in Escherichia coli and their base-specific interaction with special elongation factor SELB

RNA

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 354-366

  Hüttenhofer, Alexander ^a,c   Westhof, Eric ^b   Böck, August ^a  

^a Lehrst Mikrobiol Ludwig M   (Germany)

^b INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

21st amino acid; chemical probing; mRNA stem loop; protein synthesis

Indexed keywords

ELONGATION FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; SELENOCYSTEINE;

ARTICLE; CODON; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA PROBE; RNA STRUCTURE;

ALDEHYDES; ASPERGILLUS NUCLEASE S1; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CME-CARBODIIMIDE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; DNA PRIMERS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FORMATE DEHYDROGENASES; HYDROGENASE; HYDROXYL RADICAL; LEAD; MOLECULAR PROBES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTORS; RNA, MESSENGER; SELENOCYSTEINE; SOLUTIONS; SULFURIC ACID ESTERS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0029846259     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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