An essential non-Watson-Crick base pair motif in 3'UTR to mediate selenoprotein translation

RNA

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 74-84

  Walczak, Robert ^a   Carbon, Philippe ^a   Krol, Alain ^a  

^a INST DE BIOL MOLEC ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

3'UTR; Non Watson Crick base pairs; SECIS RNA; Selenocysteine; Sheared G.A tandems; Translation

Indexed keywords

GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; MESSENGER RNA; SELENOCYSTEINE; SELENOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CODON; DNA HELIX; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSLATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; COS CELLS; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA; SELENOCYSTEINE; SELENOPROTEINS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031985276     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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