Two distinct SECIS structures capable of directing selenocysteine incorporation in eukaryotes

RNA

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 625-635

  Grundner Culemann, Elisabeth ^a   Martin III, Glover W ^a   Harney, John W ^a   Berry, Marla J ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

3' untranslated region; Recoding; RNA structure; Translation

Indexed keywords

SELENOCYSTEINE;

ARTICLE; GENE CONVERSION; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; KIDNEY CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA STRUCTURE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

ANIMALS; ARCHAEA; BASE SEQUENCE; CATTLE; CELL LINE; CODON; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA; DOGS; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; KIDNEY; MICE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; PROKARYOTIC CELLS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEINS; RABBITS; RATS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SELENOCYSTEINE; SELENOPROTEINS; TRANSFECTION;

ARCHAEA; EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0032943632     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355838299981542     Document Type: Article

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