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Antioxidant Activity of Sulfur and Selenium: A Review of Reactive Oxygen Species Scavenging, Glutathione Peroxidase, and Metal-Binding Antioxidant Mechanisms

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Human P2Y14Receptor Agonists: Truncation of the Hexose Moiety of Uridine-5′-Diphosphoglucose and Its Replacement with Alkyl and Aryl Groups

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The Crystal Structure of the Ribosome Bound to EF-Tu and Aminoacyl-tRNA

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Study of the base discrimination ability of DNA and 2′-O-methylated RNA oligomers containing 2-thiouracil bases towards complementary RNA or DNA strands and their application to single base mismatch detection

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Synthesis and potency of novel uracil nucleotides and derivatives as P2Y2 and P2Y6 receptor agonists

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Bringing order to translation: the contributions of transfer RNA anticodon-domain modifications

(2008) Paul F Agris   EMBO REPORTS

Eukaryotic Wobble Uridine Modifications Promote a Functionally Redundant Decoding System

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tRNA cleavage is a conserved response to oxidative stress in eukaryotes

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