Gonzalez-Flores Jonathan N, Shetty Sumangala P, Dubey Aditi, Copeland Paul R
Biomol Concepts. 2013 Aug;4(4):349-65. doi: 10.1515/bmc-2013-0007.
Selenium is an essential trace element that is incorporated into 25 human proteins as the amino acid selenocysteine (Sec). The incorporation of this amino acid turns out to be a fascinating problem in molecular biology because Sec is encoded by a stop codon, UGA. Layered on top of the canonical translation elongation machinery is a set of factors that exist solely to incorporate this important amino acid. The mechanism by which this process occurs, put into the context of selenoprotein biology, is the focus of this review.
硒是一种必需的微量元素,它作为氨基酸硒代半胱氨酸(Sec)被整合到25种人类蛋白质中。这种氨基酸的整合结果在分子生物学中是一个引人入胜的问题,因为Sec由终止密码子UGA编码。在经典的翻译延伸机制之上,存在着一组专门用于整合这种重要氨基酸的因子。在硒蛋白生物学背景下,这个过程发生的机制是本综述的重点。