RNAs mediating cotranslational insertion of selenocysteine in eukaryotic selenoproteins

Biochimie

Volumn 78, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 590-596

  Hubert, N ^a   Walczak, R ^a   Sturchler, C ^a   Myslinski, E ^a   Schuster, C ^a   Westhof, E ^a   Carbon, P ^a   Krol, A ^a  

^a INST DE BIOL MOLEC ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

mRNA structure; Non Watson Crick base pairs; Selenium; Selenocysteine tRNA(Sec); Transcription; Translation

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; SELENIUM; SELENOCYSTEINE;

AMINO ACID METABOLISM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CODON; COMPUTER MODEL; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FOLDING;

EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0029907702     PISSN: 03009084     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0300-9084(96)80005-8     Document Type: Article

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