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Selenoproteins

"Selenoproteins" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Selenoproteins are proteins that specifically incorporate SELENOCYSTEINE into their amino acid chain. Most selenoproteins are enzymes with the selenocysteine residues being responsible for their catalytic functions.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Selenoproteins" by people in this website by year, and whether "Selenoproteins" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 15 publications over 12 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2020
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