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A recent study reveals that the eukaryotic ribosomal protein L30 binds to the selenocysteine recoding RNA element and may function to tether the recoding machinery to the translating ribosome.

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Figure 1: Models for selenocysteine incorporation.

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Berry, M. Knowing when not to stop. Nat Struct Mol Biol 12, 389–390 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/nsmb0505-389

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