A sequence in the Escherichia coli fdhF 'selenocysteine insertion sequence' (SECIS) operates in the absence of selenium

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 294, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1073-1086

  Liu, Zesheng ^a   Reches, Myriam ^a   Engelberg Kulka, Hanna ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Codon context; E site; Selenium; Translation; UGA readthrough

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; MESSENGER RNA; SELENIUM; SELENOCYSTEINE; VALINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CODON; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSLATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0033579407     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1999.3307     Document Type: Article

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