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SUBMITTER: Novoselov SV
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1383707 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Novoselov Sergey V SV Hua Deame D Lobanov Alexey V AV Gladyshev Vadim N VN
The Biochemical journal 20060301 Pt 3
Sec (selenocysteine) is a rare amino acid in proteins. It is co-translationally inserted into proteins at UGA codons with the help of SECIS (Sec insertion sequence) elements. A full set of selenoproteins within a genome, known as the selenoproteome, is highly variable in different organisms. However, most of the known eukaryotic selenoproteins are represented in the mammalian selenoproteome. In addition, many of these selenoproteins have cysteine orthologues. Here, we describe a new selenoprotei ...[more]