SECIS element
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secis-element-297-17671672
title:
SECIS element
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In biology, the SECIS element is an RNA element around 60 nucleotides in length that adopts a stem-loop structure. This structural motif directs the cell to translate UGA codons as selenocysteines. SECIS elements are thus a fundamental aspect of messenger RNAs encoding selenoproteins, proteins that include one or more selenocysteine residues. In bacteria the SECIS element appears soon after the UGA codon it affects. In archaea and eukaryotes, it occurs in the 3' UTR of an mRNA, and can cause mul
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RNA sequence directing the translation of UGA codons as selenocysteines
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SECIS_element
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2022-03-14T21:57:45Z
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