The class 2 selenophosphate synthetase gene of Drosophila contains a functional mammalian-type SECIS

EMBO Reports

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 441-446

  Hirosawa Takamori, Mitsuko ^a   Jäckle, Herbert ^a   Vorbrüggen, Gerd ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN; SELD PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; SELENOPHOSPHATE SYNTHETASE; SELENOPROTEIN; SPS2 PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL CULTURE; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; DOSE RESPONSE; DROSOPHILA; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYMOLOGY; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; STOP CODON; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; WESTERN BLOTTING;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CELLS, CULTURED; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CODON, TERMINATOR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SELENOPROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 0034328891     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/embo-reports/kvd087     Document Type: Article

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