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Selenium-Dependent Antioxidant Enzymes: Actions and Properties of Selenoproteins

Unlike other essential trace elements that interact with proteins in the form of cofactors, selenium (Se) becomes co-translationally incorporated into the polypeptide chain as part of 21st naturally occurring amino acid, selenocysteine (Sec), encoded by the UGA codon. Any protein that includes Sec i...

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Autores principales: Zoidis, Evangelos, Seremelis, Isidoros, Kontopoulos, Nikolaos, Danezis, Georgios P.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5981252/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29758013
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/antiox7050066