Open AccessSearch for a selenocysteine tRNA in Bacillus subtilis
Author(s) -
Jitsuhiro Matsugi,
Kazuya Murao
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
nucleic acids symposium series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1746-8272
pISSN - 0261-3166
DOI - 10.1093/nass/42.1.209
Subject(s) - selenocysteine , bacillus subtilis , transfer rna , computational biology , biology , genetics , biochemistry , bacteria , rna , gene , enzyme , cysteine
Activity to convert serine to selenocysteine in B. subtilis was studied but no activity was detected. In addition, although we tried to find its selenocysteine tRNA (tRNA(SeCys)) gene from a total genome sequence (1) by the computer search with FASTA against E. coli selC (2), no convincing candidate was found. These results suggest that in B. subtilis, selenium-related system is considerably different from known one like E. coli.
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