Functionality of mutations at conserved nucleotides in eukaryotic SECIS elements is determined by the identity of a single nonconserved nucleotide

RNA

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 65-73

  Martin III, Glover W ^a   Harney, John W ^b   Berry, Marla J ^a,b,c  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD INSTITUTES OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

3' untranslated region; Recoding; Selenocysteine; Selenoproteins; Translation

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; SELENOCYSTEINE; SELENOPROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; BINDING SITE; CODON; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; EUKARYOTE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN INTERACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSLATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; HUMANS; IODIDE PEROXIDASE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEOTIDES; PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SELENOCYSTEINE; SELENOPROTEINS;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0031985034     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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