Gene:
Selenoprotein I
Gene ID:
206279
Symbol:
Species:
1000
Description:
The product of this gene belongs to the family of selenoproteins. Selenoproteins contain the rare twenty-first amino acid, selenocysteine (sec). These proteins lack common amino acid sequence motifs, but the 3-prime untranslated regions 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. Selenoproteins are thought to be responsible for most biomedical effects of dietary selenium and are essential to mammals. This gene encodes a selenoprotein I.