Prediction of New Candidate Genes Involved in Selenium Metabolism in Eukaryotes

• 作 者: 李高鹏 林婕 张焱
• 机 构: 营养与代谢重点实验室,营养科学研究所,中国科学院上海生命科学研究院,中国科学院大学,上海,200031
• 出 处: 第六届全国生物信息学与系统生物学学术大会暨国际生物信息学前沿研讨会
• 发表日期: 2014年10期
• 关键词: selenium selenocysteine arthropods comparative genomics

　　Background: Selenium (Se) is an important micronutrient that mainly occurs in proteins in the form of selenocysteine (Sec) and is utilized by most animals.In the past twenty years, several key genes that participate in Sec biosynthesis have been characterized in a variety of eukaryotes.However, the complete Se metabolic network in eukaryotes is not yet fully understood.