Computational identification of the selenocysteine tRNA (tRNASec) in genomes.

Selenocysteine (Sec) is known as the 21st amino acid, a cysteine analogue with selenium replacing sulphur. Sec is inserted co-translationally in a small fraction of proteins called selenoproteins. In selenoprotein genes, the Sec specific tRNA (tRNASec) drives the recoding of highly specific UGA codo...

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Main Authors: Didac Santesmasses, Marco Mariotti, Roderic Guigó
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-02-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5330540?pdf=render