Wobble decoding by the Escherichia coli selenocysteine insertion machinery

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 41, Issue 21, 2013, Pages 9800-9811

  Xu, Jianqiang ^a   Croitoru, Victor ^a   Rutishauser, Dorothea ^a   Cheng, Qing ^a   Arnér, Elias S J ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; ELONGATION FACTOR; GLYCINE; ISOPROPYL THIOGALACTOSIDE; MESSENGER RNA; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SELENOCYSTEINE; SELENOPROTEIN; THIOREDOXIN REDUCTASE 1; TRANSFER RNA; TRYPTOPHAN; URACIL;

AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE INSERTION; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RNA TRANSLATION; STOP CODON; WOBBLE DECODING;

ANIMALS; ANTICODON; CODON; ESCHERICHIA COLI; RATS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA, TRANSFER, AMINO ACID-SPECIFIC; SELENOCYSTEINE; SELENOPROTEINS; THIOREDOXIN REDUCTASE 1;

EID: 84890083723     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt764     Document Type: Article

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