SELT

For the airport with that ICAO code, see Cotopaxi International Airport.
Selenoprotein T
Identifiers
SymbolSELT
External IDsOMIM: 607912 HomoloGene: 32304 GeneCards: SELT Gene
RNA expression pattern
More reference expression data
Orthologs
SpeciesHumanMouse
Entrez5171469227
EnsemblENSG00000198843ENSMUSG00000075700
UniProtP62341P62342
RefSeq (mRNA)NM_016275NM_001040396
RefSeq (protein)NP_057359NP_001035486
Location (UCSC)Chr 3:
150.32 – 150.35 Mb
Chr 3:
58.58 – 58.59 Mb
PubMed search

Selenoprotein T, also known as SELT, is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SELT gene.[1][2][3]

Gene

The selenocysteine is encoded by the UGA codon that normally signals translation termination. The 3' UTR of selenoprotein genes have a common stem-loop structure, the sec insertion sequence (SECIS), that is necessary for the recognition of UGA as a Sec codon rather than as a stop signal.[3]

Protein structure

Selenoprotein T contains a selenocysteine (Sec) residue at its active site.

See also

References

  1. Kryukov GV, Kryukov VM, Gladyshev VN (November 1999). "New mammalian selenocysteine-containing proteins identified with an algorithm that searches for selenocysteine insertion sequence elements". J. Biol. Chem. 274 (48): 33888–97. doi:10.1074/jbc.274.48.33888. PMID 10567350.
  2. Kryukov GV, Castellano S, Novoselov SV, Lobanov AV, Zehtab O, Guigó R, Gladyshev VN (May 2003). "Characterization of mammalian selenoproteomes". Science 300 (5624): 1439–43. doi:10.1126/science.1083516. PMID 12775843.
  3. 3.0 3.1 "Entrez Gene: SELT selenoprotein T".

Further reading