Engineering the elongation factor Tu for efficient selenoprotein synthesis

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 42, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 9976-9983

  Haruna, Ken Ichi ^a   Alkazemi, Muhammad H ^a   Liu, Yuchen ^a   Söll, Dieter ^a   Englert, Markus ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

6 O ALKYLGUANINE DNA ALKYLTRANSFERASE; ELONGATION FACTOR TU; METHYLNITRONITROSOGUANIDINE; SELENOCYSTEINE; SELENOPROTEIN; ASPARAGINE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CYSTEINE; METHYLATED DNA PROTEIN CYSTEINE METHYLTRANSFERASE; SELB PROTEIN, BACTERIA; TRANSFER RNA; TRNA, SELENOCYSTEINE-;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR LIBRARY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; BINDING SITE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MUTATION;

ASPARAGINE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CYSTEINE; HUMANS; MUTATION; O(6)-METHYLGUANINE-DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTOR TU; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; RNA, TRANSFER, AMINO ACID-SPECIFIC; SELENOCYSTEINE; SELENOPROTEINS;

EID: 84912097224     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku691     Document Type: Article

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