Selenocysteine synthesis in mammalia: An identity switch from tRNA(Ser) to tRNA(Sec)

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 263, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 8-19

  Amberg, Rüdiger ^a   Mizutani, Takaharu ^b   Wu, Xin Qi ^a,c   Gross, Hans J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mammalian tRNA(Sec) and tRNA(Scr); Phosphoserine; Selenocysteine; tRNA identity

Indexed keywords

SELENOCYSTEINE; SERINE TRANSFER RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RNA STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0030592461     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1996.0552     Document Type: Article

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