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Glenn R. Björk

Glenn R. Björk

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Genetics

D-Index
56
Citations
9717
World Ranking
3520
National Ranking
44

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Glenn R. Björk is affiliated with Umeå University in Sweden. The scientific profile focuses on their academic and research activities within this institution.

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Best Publications

  • Improvement of reading frame maintenance is a common function for several tRNA modifications.

    Jaunius Urbonavičius;Qiang Qian;Jérôme M.B. Durand;Tord G. Hagervall

  • Transfer RNA Modification

    Glenn R. Björk;Tord G. Hagervall

  • Biosynthesis and Function of Modified Nucleosides

    Glenn R. Björk

  • A primordial tRNA modification required for the evolution of life

    Glenn R. Björk;Kerstin Jacobsson;Kristina Nilsson;Marcus J.O. Johansson

  • The essential Gcd10p–Gcd14p nuclear complex is required for 1-methyladenosine modification and maturation of initiator methionyl-tRNA

    James Anderson;Lon Phan;Rafael Cuesta;Bradley A. Carlson

  • Prevention of translational frameshifting by the modified nucleoside 1-methylguanosine.

    Glenn R Björk;P M Wikström;Anders S Byström

  • Eukaryotic wobble uridine modifications promote a functionally redundant decoding system.

    Marcus J. O. Johansson;Anders Esberg;Bo Huang;Glenn R. Björk

  • A conserved modified wobble nucleoside (mcm5s2U) in lysyl-tRNA is required for viability in yeast

    Glenn R. Björk;Bo Huang;Olof P. Persson;Anders S. Byström

  • A Gripping Tale of Ribosomal Frameshifting: Extragenic Suppressors of Frameshift Mutations Spotlight P-Site Realignment

    John F. Atkins;Glenn R. Björk

  • Transfer RNA modification, temperature and DNA superhelicity have a common target in the regulatory network of the virulence of Shigella flexneri: the expression of the virF gene.

    Jérôme M. B. Durand;Björn Dagberg;Bernt Eric Uhlin;Glenn R. Björk

  • Transfer RNA modification: influence on translational frameshifting and metabolism.

    Glenn R Björk;Jérôme M.B Durand;Tord G Hagervall;Ramun≐ Leipuvien≐

  • How translational accuracy influences reading frame maintenance.

    Philip J. Farabaugh;Glenn R. Björk

  • Isolation of mutants of Escherichia coli lacking 5-methyluracil in transfer ribonucleic acid or 1-methylguanine in ribosomal RNA

    Glenn R. Björk;Leif A. Isaksson

  • The nucleotide sequence of an Escherichia coli operon containing genes for the tRNA(m1G)methyltransferase, the ribosomal proteins S16 and L19 and a 21-K polypeptide.

    A S Byström;K J Hjalmarsson;P M Wikström;G R Björk

  • Further insights into the tRNA modification process controlled by proteins MnmE and GidA of Escherichia coli.

    Lucía Yim;Ismaïl Moukadiri;Glenn R. Björk;M.-Eugenia Armengod

  • Transfer RNA Modification: Presence, Synthesis, and Function.

    Glenn R. Björk;Tord G. Hagervall

  • A New Model for Phenotypic Suppression of Frameshift Mutations by Mutant tRNAs

    Qiang Qian;Ji-nong Li;Hong Zhao;Tord G. Hagervall

  • The modified wobble nucleoside uridine-5-oxyacetic acid in tRNAPro(cmo5UGG) promotes reading of all four proline codons in vivo.

    S. Joakim Näsvall;Peng Chen;Glenn R. Björk

  • Deficiency of 1-methylguanosine in tRNA from Salmonella typhimurium induces frameshifting by quadruplet translocation

    Tord G. Hagervall;Thérèse M.F. Tuohy;John F. Atkins;Glenn R. Björk

  • Synthesis and function of isopentenyl adenosine derivatives in tRNA

    B.C. Persson;B. Esberg;Ó. Ólafsson;G.R. Björk

Frequent Co-Authors

John F. Atkins
John F. Atkins University College Cork
Tor Ny
Tor Ny Umeå University
Henri Grosjean
Henri Grosjean Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Philip J. Farabaugh
Philip J. Farabaugh University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Malcolm E. Winkler
Malcolm E. Winkler Indiana University
James M. Anderson
James M. Anderson National Institutes of Health
Tanel Tenson
Tanel Tenson University of Tartu
Bernt Eric Uhlin
Bernt Eric Uhlin Umeå University
Douglas E. Berg
Douglas E. Berg Washington University in St. Louis
Alan G. Hinnebusch
Alan G. Hinnebusch National Institutes of Health

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