Selenocysteine inserting tRNAs: An overview

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 335-351

  Commans, Stephane ^a   Böck, August ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Identity; Selenocysteine; Translation; tRNA

Indexed keywords

ELONGATION FACTOR; SELENOCYSTEINE; SYNTHETASE; TRANSFER RNA;

CODON; NONHUMAN; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSLATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CODON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, TRANSFER, AMINO ACID-SPECIFIC; SELENOCYSTEINE;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0345436050     PISSN: 01686445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-6445(99)00011-X     Document Type: Review

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