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The syndrome of inherited partial SBP2 deficiency in humans.
Antioxidants & redox signaling - 1 Apr 2010
Dumitrescu Alexandra M, Di Cosmo Caterina, Liao Xiao-Hui, Weiss Roy E, Refetoff Samuel
Abstract excerpt
Selenium (Se) is an essential trace element required for the biosynthesis of selenoproteins. Selenocysteine insertion sequence (SECIS) binding protein 2 (SBP2) represents a key trans-acting factor for the co-translational insertion of selenocysteine into selenoproteins. In 2005, we reported the first mutations in the SBP2 gene in two families in which the probands presented with transient growth retardation...
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