Identification of Leishmania selenoproteins and SECIS element

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 149, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 128-134

  Cassago, A ^a   Rodrigues, E M ^a   Prieto, E L ^a   Gaston, K W ^b   Alfonzo, J D ^b   Iribar, M P ^a   Berry, M J ^c   Cruz, A K ^a   Thiemann, O H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Leishmania; SECIS; Selenocysteine; Selenoprotein

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; SELENOCYSTEINE; SELENOPROTEIN; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUKARYOTE; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE SEQUENCE; KINETOPLAST; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRYPANOSOMA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, PROTOZOAN; LEISHMANIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PROTOZOAN; RNA, TRANSFER, AMINO ACID-SPECIFIC; SELENOPROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EUKARYOTA; KINETOPLASTIDA; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; TRYPANOSOMA;

EID: 33747795310     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2006.05.002     Document Type: Article

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