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Structure of prokaryotic SECIS mRNA hairpin and its interaction with elongation factor SelB.
Journal of molecular biology - 15 Nov 2002
Fourmy Dominique, Guittet Eric, Yoshizawa Satoko
Abstract excerpt
In prokaryotes, the recoding of a UGA stop codon as a selenocysteine codon requires a special elongation factor (EF) SelB and a stem-loop structure within the mRNA called a selenocysteine insertion sequence (SECIS). Here, we used NMR spectroscopy to determine the solution structure of the SECIS mRNA hairpin and characterized its interaction with the mRNA-binding domain of SelB. Our structural and biochemical data...
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