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Evolution of selenium utilization traits
BACKGROUND: The essential trace element selenium is used in a wide variety of biological processes. Selenocysteine (Sec), the 21st amino acid, is co-translationally incorporated into a restricted set of proteins. It is encoded by an UGA codon with the help of tRNA(Sec )(SelC), Sec-specific elongatio...
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BioMed Central
2005
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1273633/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16086848 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/gb-2005-6-8-r66 |