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Making sense of nonsense: the evolution of selenocysteine usage in proteins

A recent analysis of sequences derived from organisms in the Sargasso Sea has revealed a surprisingly different set of selenium-containing proteins than that previously found in sequenced genomes and suggests that selenocysteine utilization has been lost by many groups of organisms during evolution.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Copeland, Paul R
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2005
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1175963/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15960811
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/gb-2005-6-6-221