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SECIS element
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SECIS element
In
biology
, the
SECIS element
(SECIS:
se
leno
c
ysteine
i
nsertion
s
equence
) is an
RNA element
around 60
nucleotides
in length that adopts a
stem-loop
structure. This
structural motif
(pattern of nucleotides) directs the
cell
to
translate
UGA
codons
as
selenocysteines
. (UGA is normally a
stop codon
.) SECIS elements are thus a fundamental aspect of
messenger RNAs
encoding
selenoproteins
, proteins that include one or more selenocysteine residues.
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