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Specific excision of the selenocysteine tRNA[Ser]Sec (Trsp) gene in mouse liver demonstrates an essential role of selenoproteins in liver function.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 27 Feb 2004
Carlson Bradley A, Novoselov Sergey V, Kumaraswamy Easwari, Lee Byeong Jae, Anver Miriam R, Gladyshev Vadim N, Hatfield Dolph L
Abstract excerpt
Selenium is essential in mammalian embryonic development. However, in adults, selenoprotein levels in several organs including liver can be substantially reduced by selenium deficiency without any apparent change in phenotype. To address the role of selenoproteins in liver function, mice homozygous for a floxed allele encoding the selenocysteine (Sec) tRNA([Ser]Sec) gene were crossed with transgenic mice carrying...
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