BMC Genomics

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In silico identification of genes involved in selenium metabolism: evidence for a third selenium utilization trait

Yan Zhang1, Anton A Turanov1, Dolph L Hatfield2 and Vadim N Gladyshev1*

Author Affiliations

1 Redox Biology Center and Department of Biochemistry, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588, USA

2 Section on the Molecular Biology of Selenium, Laboratory of Cancer Prevention, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA

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BMC Genomics 2008, 9:251 doi:10.1186/1471-2164-9-251

Published: 29 May 2008

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This file includes table S1 which shows the occurrance of Sec and SeU utilization traits in each sequenced organism.

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This file includes supplemental figure S1 which shows genomic context of selD in additional orphan SelD-containing genomes.

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