| Literature DB >> 15659354 |
Tobias Mourier, Arnab Pain, Bart Barrell, Sam Griffiths-Jones.
Abstract
The molecular machinery for incorporating selenocysteine into proteins is present in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Although selenocysteine insertion has been reported in animals, plants, and protozoans, known eukaryotic selenocysteine tRNA sequences and selenocysteine insertion sequences are limited to animals and plants. Here we present clear indications of the presence of selenocysteine-tRNA and a selenocysteine insertion sequence in Plasmodium falciparum. To our knowledge, this is the first report of an identification of protozoan selenocysteine insertion machinery at the sequence level.Entities:
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Year: 2005 PMID: 15659354 PMCID: PMC1370700 DOI: 10.1261/rna.7185605
Source DB: PubMed Journal: RNA ISSN: 1355-8382 Impact factor: 4.942