| Entry |
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| Name |
Selenocompound metabolism - Homo sapiens (human)
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| Class |
Metabolism; Metabolism of other amino acids
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| Pathway map |
| Selenocompound metabolism |

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| Disease |
| Homocystinuria | | Hypermethioninemia | | SEMD, Pakistani type | | Methylcobalamin deficiency type G (cblG) |
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| Organism |
Homo sapiens (human) [GN: hsa]
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| Gene |
| MTR; 5-methyltetrahydrofolate-homocysteine methyltransferase [KO: K00548] [EC: 2.1.1.13] | | CTH; cystathionase (cystathionine gamma-lyase) [KO: K01758] [EC: 4.4.1.1] | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | SEPSECS; Sep (O-phosphoserine) tRNA:Sec (selenocysteine) tRNA synthase [KO: K03341] [EC: 2.9.1.2] | | | | MARS2; methionyl-tRNA synthetase 2, mitochondrial [KO: K01874] [EC: 6.1.1.10] |
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| Compound |
| Protein | | L-Alanine | | Hydrogen selenide | | Dimethyl selenide | | Selenophosphoric acid | | L-Selenomethionine | | Selenomethionyl-tRNA(Met) | | Selenite | | Adenylylselenate | | L-Selenocysteine | | Se-Methyl-L-selenocysteine | | Se-Methylselenomethionine | | gamma-Glutamyl-Se-methylselenocysteine | | Selenate | | Selenohomocysteine | | L-Selenocystathionine | | Methaneselenol | | L-Seryl-tRNA(Sec) | | L-Selenocysteinyl-tRNA(Sec) | | O-Phosphoseryl-tRNA(Sec) | | Selenodiglutathione | | Glutathioselenol | | Trimethylselenonium | | 1-Methylseleno-N-acetyl-D-galactosamine | | Methylselenic acid | | Methylselenopyruvate | | Methylselenocysteine Se-oxide |
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| Reference |
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| Authors |
Hoefig CS, Renko K, Kohrle J, Birringer M, Schomburg L |
| Title |
Comparison of different selenocompounds with respect to nutritional value vs. toxicity using liver cells in culture. |
| Journal |
J Nutr Biochem (2010) |
| Reference |
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| Authors |
McKenzie MJ, Hunter DA, Pathirana R, Watson LM, Joyce NI, Matich AJ, Rowan DD, Brummell DA |
| Title |
Accumulation of an organic anticancer selenium compound in a transgenic Solanaceous species shows wider applicability of the selenocysteine methyltransferase transgene from selenium hyperaccumulators. |
| Journal |
Transgenic Res 18:407-24 (2009) |
| Reference |
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| Authors |
Pinto JT, Lee JI, Sinha R, Macewan ME, Cooper AJ |
| Title |
Chemopreventive mechanisms of alpha-keto acid metabolites of naturally occurring organoselenium compounds. |
| Journal |
Amino Acids (2010) |
| Reference |
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| Authors |
Suzuki KT, Kurasaki K, Suzuki N |
| Title |
Selenocysteine beta-lyase and methylselenol demethylase in the metabolism of Se-methylated selenocompounds into selenide. |
| Journal |
Biochim Biophys Acta 1770:1053-61 (2007) |
| Reference |
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| Authors |
Gromer S, Gross JH |
| Title |
Methylseleninate is a substrate rather than an inhibitor of mammalian thioredoxin reductase. Implications for the antitumor effects of selenium. |
| Journal |
J Biol Chem 277:9701-6 (2002) |
| KO pathway |
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