Organoselenium in Nature

Selenium, among the naturally occurring elements, is nowadays considered the most relevant for the redox homeostasis of living systems. In this chapter, its role in plants, bacteria, and humans is scholarly discussed. Some plants have the possibility to accumulate this element, thus becoming a natur...

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Autores principales: Lenardão, Eder João, Santi, Claudio, Sancineto, Luca
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Publicado: 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7123397/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92405-2_3
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description Selenium, among the naturally occurring elements, is nowadays considered the most relevant for the redox homeostasis of living systems. In this chapter, its role in plants, bacteria, and humans is scholarly discussed. Some plants have the possibility to accumulate this element, thus becoming a natural source for animals and humans, in which selenium is embedded in selenoproteins, as the 21(st) amino acid, selenocysteine (l-Sec). The main classes of selenoenzymes (glutathione peroxidase, thioredoxin reductase, and iodothyronine deiodinases) are reported here and the molecular mechanism that characterizes their physiological action is discussed.
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spelling pubmed-71233972020-04-06 Organoselenium in Nature Lenardão, Eder João Santi, Claudio Sancineto, Luca New Frontiers in Organoselenium Compounds Article Selenium, among the naturally occurring elements, is nowadays considered the most relevant for the redox homeostasis of living systems. In this chapter, its role in plants, bacteria, and humans is scholarly discussed. Some plants have the possibility to accumulate this element, thus becoming a natural source for animals and humans, in which selenium is embedded in selenoproteins, as the 21(st) amino acid, selenocysteine (l-Sec). The main classes of selenoenzymes (glutathione peroxidase, thioredoxin reductase, and iodothyronine deiodinases) are reported here and the molecular mechanism that characterizes their physiological action is discussed. 2018-06-27 /pmc/articles/PMC7123397/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92405-2_3 Text en © Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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