The molecular biology of selenocysteine

The molecular biology of selenocysteine

Selenium is an essential trace element that is incorporated into 25 human proteins as the amino acid selenocysteine (Sec). The incorporation of this amino acid turns out to be a fascinating problem in molecular biology because Sec is encoded by a stop codon, UGA. Layered on top of the canonical tran...

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Main Authors: Gonzalez-Flores Jonathan N., Shetty Sumangala P., Dubey Aditi, Copeland Paul R.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2013-08-01
Series:Biomolecular Concepts
Subjects:
elongation factor
rna binding
secis binding protein
selenocysteine
translation
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/bmc-2013-0007

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https://doi.org/10.1515/bmc-2013-0007

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