SELT

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Selenoprotein T
Identifiers
Symbol SELT
External IDs OMIM: 607912 HomoloGene: 32304 GeneCards: SELT Gene
RNA expression pattern
More reference expression data
Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez 51714 69227
Ensembl ENSG00000198843 ENSMUSG00000075700
UniProt P62341 P62342
RefSeq (mRNA) NM_016275 NM_001040396
RefSeq (protein) NP_057359 NP_001035486
Location (UCSC) Chr 3:
150.6 – 150.63 Mb
Chr 3:
58.58 – 58.59 Mb
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Selenoprotein T, also known as SELT, is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SELT gene.[1][2][3]

Gene

The selenocysteine is encoded by the UGA codon that normally signals translation termination. The 3' UTR of selenoprotein genes have a common stem-loop structure, the sec insertion sequence (SECIS), that is necessary for the recognition of UGA as a Sec codon rather than as a stop signal.[3]

Protein structure

Selenoprotein T contains a selenocysteine (Sec) residue at its active site.

See also

References

  1. Kryukov GV, Kryukov VM, Gladyshev VN (November 1999). "New mammalian selenocysteine-containing proteins identified with an algorithm that searches for selenocysteine insertion sequence elements". J. Biol. Chem. 274 (48): 33888–97. doi:10.1074/jbc.274.48.33888. PMID 10567350.
  2. Kryukov GV, Castellano S, Novoselov SV, Lobanov AV, Zehtab O, Guigó R, Gladyshev VN (May 2003). "Characterization of mammalian selenoproteomes". Science 300 (5624): 1439–43. doi:10.1126/science.1083516. PMID 12775843.
  3. 1 2 "Entrez Gene: SELT selenoprotein T".

Further reading

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