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- Title
Characterization of mammalian selenoproteomes.
- Authors
Kryukov, Gregory V; Castellano, Sergi; Novoselov, Sergey V; Lobanov, Alexey V; Zehtab, Omid; Guigó, Roderic; Gladyshev, Vadim N
- Abstract
In the genetic code, UGA serves as a stop signal and a selenocysteine codon, but no computational methods for identifying its coding function are available. Consequently, most selenoprotein genes are misannotated. We identified selenoprotein genes in sequenced mammalian genomes by methods that rely on identification of selenocysteine insertion RNA structures, the coding potential of UGA codons, and the presence of cysteine-containing homologs. The human selenoproteome consists of 25 selenoproteins.
- Publication
Science (New York, N.Y.), 2003, Vol 300, Issue 5624, p1439
- ISSN
1095-9203
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1126/science.1083516