Crystal structure of human selenocysteine tRNA

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 37, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 6259-6268

  Itoh, Yuzuru ^a,b   Chiba, Shiho ^a   Sekine, Shun Ichi ^a,b   Yokoyama, Shigeyuki ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b RIKEN   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELONGATION FACTOR; O PHOSPHOSERYL TRANSFER RNA KINASE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; SELENOCYSTEINE; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME CONFORMATION; HYDROPHOBICITY; INTERACTIONS WITH RNA; MOLECULAR DOCKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RNA STRUCTURE;

ANTICODON; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, TRANSFER, AMINO ACID-SPECIFIC;

EID: 70350643682     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkp648     Document Type: Article

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