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A naturally-occurring amino acid, present in several enzymes, whose structure is that of cysteine but with the sulfur atom replaced by one of selenium
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Selenocysteine — chembox ImageFile = L selenocysteine 2D skeletal.png ImageFile1 = Selenocysteine 3D vdW.png IUPACName = L Selenocysteine OtherNames = Section1 = Chembox Identifiers CASNo = 10236 58 5 PubChem = SMILES = N [C@@H] (C [SeH] )C(O)=O Section2 =… … Wikipedia
Selenocysteine lyase — In enzymology, a selenocysteine lyase (EC number|4.4.1.16) is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction:L selenocysteine + reduced acceptor ightleftharpoons selenide + L alanine + acceptorThus, the two substrates of this enzyme are L… … Wikipedia
selenocysteine — An unusual amino acid of proteins, the selenium analogue of cysteine, in which a selenium atom replaces sulphur. Involved in the catalytic mechanism of seleno enzymes such as formate dehydrogenase of E. coli, and mammalian glutathione peroxidase … Dictionary of molecular biology
selenocysteine — Cysteine containing selenium in place of one sulfur atom. * * * sel·e·no·cys·teine .sel ə nō sis tə .ēn n a cysteine analog C3H7NO2Se in which one atom of sulfur has been replaced with one atom of selenium … Medical dictionary
10236-58-5 — Sélénocystéine Sélénocystéine Structure de la L … Wikipédia en Français
C3H7NO2Se — Sélénocystéine Sélénocystéine Structure de la L … Wikipédia en Français
Selenium — (pronEng|səˈliniəm) is a chemical element with the atomic number 34, represented by the chemical symbol Se, an atomic mass of 78.96. It is a nonmetal, chemically related to sulfur and tellurium, and rarely occurs in its elemental state in nature … Wikipedia
SECIS element — In biology, the SECIS element (SECIS: selenocysteine insertion sequence ) is an RNA element around 60 nucleotides in length that adopts a stem loop structure. [cite journal | last = Walczak | first = R | coauthors = Westhof E, Carbon P, Krol A |… … Wikipedia
