SerRS-tRNASec complex structures reveal mechanism of the first step in selenocysteine biosynthesis

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 43, Issue 21, 2015, Pages 10534-10545

  Wang, Caiyan ^a   Guo, Yu ^a   Tian, Qingnan ^a   Jia, Qian ^a   Gao, Yuanzhu ^a   Zhang, Qinfen ^a   Zhou, Chun ^b   Xie, Wei ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SELENOCYSTEINE; SERINE TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; PROTEIN BINDING; TRANSFER RNA; TRNA, SELENOCYSTEINE-;

AMINOACYLATION; ARTICLE; CONFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; STOICHIOMETRY; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR MODEL; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA, TRANSFER, AMINO ACID-SPECIFIC; SELENOCYSTEINE; SERINE-TRNA LIGASE; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84983770694     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv996     Document Type: Article

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