Towards understanding selenocysteine incorporation into bacterial proteins

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 388, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1061-1067

  Fischer, Niels ^a   Paleskava, Alena ^b   Gromadski, Kirill B ^b   Konevega, Andrey L ^b   Wahl, Markus C ^a   Stark, Holger ^a   Rodnina, Marina V ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Electron cryomicroscopy; Fluorescence; Protein synthesis; Recoding; Ribosome; Selenocysteine

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; SELENOCYSTEINE; TRANSFER RNA;

AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; AMINO ACID TRANSPORT; ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; DISSOCIATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; FORELIMB; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MOORELLA THERMOACETICA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RIBOSOME; THERMOPHILE; VITRIFICATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; KINETICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RNA, TRANSFER, AMINO ACID-SPECIFIC; SELENOCYSTEINE; THERMOANAEROBACTER; TRANSFERASES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MOORELLA THERMOACETICA;

EID: 35348893826     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: 14374315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/BC.2007.108     Document Type: Article

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