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Search for a selenocysteine tRNA in Bacillus subtilis
Nucleic Acids Symposium Series
|April 26, 2000
Abstract:
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.