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Regulation of selenocysteine incorporation into the selenium transport protein, selenoprotein P.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 5 Sept 2014
Shetty Sumangala P, Shah Ravi, Copeland Paul R
Abstract excerpt
Selenoproteins are unique as they contain selenium in their active site in the form of the 21st amino acid selenocysteine (Sec), which is encoded by an in-frame UGA stop codon. Sec incorporation requires both cis- and trans-acting factors, which are known to be sufficient for Sec incorporation in vitro, albeit with low efficiency. However, the abundance of the naturally occurring selenoprotein that contains 10...
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