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SECIS element
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<h2 id="species-distribution">Species distribution</h2> <p>The SECIS element is found in a wide variety of organisms from all three domains of life (including their viruses).<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10"><sup>10</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:11" href="#fn:11"><sup>11</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:12" href="#fn:12"><sup>12</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li></li> <li><a href="http://rfam.xfam.org/family?entry=RF00031">Page for SECIS element 1</a> at <a href="/facts/Rfam/pl9awpRM">Rfam</a></li> <li></li> <li><a href="http://rfam.xfam.org/family?entry=RF01988">Page for SECIS element 2</a> at <a href="/facts/Rfam/pl9awpRM">Rfam</a></li> <li></li> <li><a href="http://rfam.xfam.org/family?entry=RF01989">Page for SECIS element 3</a> at <a href="/facts/Rfam/pl9awpRM">Rfam</a></li> <li></li> <li><a href="http://rfam.xfam.org/family?entry=RF01990">Page for SECIS element 4</a> at <a href="/facts/Rfam/pl9awpRM">Rfam</a></li> <li></li> <li><a href="http://rfam.xfam.org/family?entry=RF01991">Page for SECIS element 5</a> at <a href="/facts/Rfam/pl9awpRM">Rfam</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Walczak R, Westhof E, Carbon P, Krol A (April 1996). "A novel RNA structural motif in the selenocysteine insertion element of eukaryotic selenoprotein mRNAs". RNA. 2 (4): 367–379. PMC 1369379. PMID 8634917. <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1369379" target="_blank">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1369379</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Wilting R, Schorling S, Persson BC, Böck A (March 1997). "Selenoprotein synthesis in archaea: identification of an mRNA element of Methanococcus jannaschii probably directing selenocysteine insertion". Journal of Molecular Biology. 266 (4): 637–641. doi:10.1006/jmbi.1996.0812. PMID 9102456. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/Doi_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Rother M, Resch A, Wilting R, Böck A (2001). "Selenoprotein synthesis in archaea". BioFactors. 14 (1–4): 75–83. doi:10.1002/biof.5520140111. PMID 11568443. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/Doi_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Mariotti, Marco; Lobanov, Alexei V.; Manta, Bruno; Santesmasses, Didac; Bofill, Andreu; Guigó, Roderic; Gabaldón, Toni; Gladyshev, Vadim N. (2016). "LokiarchaeotaMarks the Transition between the Archaeal and Eukaryotic Selenocysteine Encoding Systems". Molecular Biology and Evolution. 33 (9): 2441–2453. doi:10.1093/molbev/msw122. ISSN 0737-4038. PMC 4989117. PMID 27413050. <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4989117" target="_blank">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4989117</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Lambert A, Lescure A, Gautheret D (September 2002). "A survey of metazoan selenocysteine insertion sequences". Biochimie. 84 (9): 953–959. doi:10.1016/S0300-9084(02)01441-4. PMID 12458087. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/Doi_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Lambert A, Lescure A, Gautheret D (September 2002). "A survey of metazoan selenocysteine insertion sequences". Biochimie. 84 (9): 953–959. doi:10.1016/S0300-9084(02)01441-4. PMID 12458087. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/Doi_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>Mix H, Lobanov AV, Gladyshev VN (2007). "SECIS elements in the coding regions of selenoprotein transcripts are functional in higher eukaryotes". Nucleic Acids Research. 35 (2): 414–423. doi:10.1093/nar/gkl1060. PMC 1802603. PMID 17169995. <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1802603" target="_blank">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1802603</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>Cassago A, Rodrigues EM, Prieto EL, Gaston KW, Alfonzo JD, Iribar MP, Berry MJ, Cruz AK, Thiemann OH (October 2006). "Identification of Leishmania selenoproteins and SECIS element". Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology. 149 (2): 128–134. doi:10.1016/j.molbiopara.2006.05.002. PMID 16766053. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/Doi_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:9"><p>Mourier T, Pain A, Barrell B, Griffiths-Jones S (February 2005). "A selenocysteine tRNA and SECIS element in Plasmodium falciparum". RNA. 11 (2): 119–122. doi:10.1261/rna.7185605. PMC 1370700. PMID 15659354. <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1370700" target="_blank">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1370700</a> <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:10"><p>Kryukov GV, Castellano S, Novoselov SV, Lobanov AV, Zehtab O, Guigó R, Gladyshev VN (May 2003). "Characterization of mammalian selenoproteomes". Science. 300 (5624): 1439–1443. Bibcode:2003Sci...300.1439K. doi:10.1126/science.1083516. PMID 12775843. S2CID 10363908. <a href="http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1072&context=biochemgladyshev" target="_blank">http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1072&context=biochemgladyshev</a> <a href="#fnref:10" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:11"><p>Kryukov GV, Gladyshev VN (May 2004). "The prokaryotic selenoproteome". EMBO Reports. 5 (5): 538–543. doi:10.1038/sj.embor.7400126. PMC 1299047. PMID 15105824. <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1299047" target="_blank">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1299047</a> <a href="#fnref:11" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:12"><p>Krol A (August 2002). "Evolutionarily different RNA motifs and RNA-protein complexes to achieve selenoprotein synthesis". Biochimie. 84 (8): 765–774. doi:10.1016/S0300-9084(02)01405-0. PMID 12457564. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/Doi_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:12" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>