New developments in selenium biochemistry: Selenocysteine biosynthesis in eukaryotes and archaea

Biological Trace Element Research

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 234-241

  Xu, Xue Ming ^a   Carlson, Bradley A ^a   Zhang, Yan ^b   Mix, Heiko ^b   Kryukov, Gregory V ^b   Glass, Richard S ^c   Berry, Marla J ^d   Gladyshev, Vadim N ^b   Hatfield, Dolph L ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c University of Arizona   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Selenocysteine; Selenocysteine biosynthesis; Selenocysteine synthase; Selenophosphate synthetase; Selenoproteins

Indexed keywords

ENZYME; LIVER ANTIGEN; O PHOSPHOSERYL TRANSFER RNA KINASE; PHOSPHATE; SELENIUM; SELENOCYSTEINE; SELENOPHOSPHATE SYNTHETASE 1; SELENOPHOSPHATE SYNTHETASE 2; SELENOPROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEPHOSPHORYLATION; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTE; GENOMICS; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PHOSPHORUS NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ARCHAEA; HUMANS; MAMMALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES; RNA, TRANSFER, AMINO ACYL; SELENIUM; SELENOCYSTEINE; SELENOPROTEINS;

EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 36048976270     PISSN: 01634984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12011-007-8003-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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