Selenium-regulated translation control of heterologous gene expression: Normal function of selenocysteine-substituted gene products

Journal of Cellular Biochemistry

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 410-419

  Leonard, Jack L ^a   Leonard, Deborah M ^a   Shen, Qichang ^a   Farwell, Alan P ^a   Newburger, Peter E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; GROWTH HORMONE RECEPTOR; SELENIUM; SELENOCYSTEINE; THYROID HORMONE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LIGAND BINDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUCIFERASES; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RATS; RECEPTORS, SOMATOTROPIN; RECEPTORS, THYROID HORMONE; SELENOCYSTEINE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 0029953306     PISSN: 07302312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4644(19960601)61:3<410::AID-JCB8>3.0.CO;2-W     Document Type: Article

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