SEP15

15 kDa selenoprotein
Identifiers
Symbols	SEP15 ;
External IDs	Template:OMIM5 Template:MGI HomoloGene: 3145
Gene ontology Molecular function Template:GNF GO Template:GNF GO Cellular component Template:GNF GO Template:GNF GO Biological process Template:GNF GO
Orthologs
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Species	Human	Mouse
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15 kDa selenoprotein, also known as SEP15, is a human gene.

This gene encodes a selenoprotein, which contains a selenocysteine (Sec) residue at its active site. The selenocysteine is encoded by the UGA codon that normally signals translation termination. The 3' UTR of selenoprotein genes have a common stem-loop structure, the sec insertion sequence (SECIS), that is necessary for the recognition of UGA as a Sec codon rather than as a stop signal. Studies in mouse suggest that this selenoprotein may have redox function and may be involved in the quality control of protein folding. This gene is localized on chromosome 1p31, a genetic locus commonly mutated or deleted in human cancers. Two alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding distinct isoforms have been found for this gene.

Further reading

• Maruyama K, Sugano S (1994). "Oligo-capping: a simple method to replace the cap structure of eukaryotic mRNAs with oligoribonucleotides". Gene. 138 (1–2): 171–4. PMID 8125298.
• Suzuki Y, Yoshitomo-Nakagawa K, Maruyama K; et al. (1997). "Construction and characterization of a full length-enriched and a 5'-end-enriched cDNA library". Gene. 200 (1–2): 149–56. PMID 9373149.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Gladyshev VN, Jeang KT, Wootton JC, Hatfield DL (1998). "A new human selenium-containing protein. Purification, characterization, and cDNA sequence". J. Biol. Chem. 273 (15): 8910–5. PMID 9535873.CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Kumaraswamy E, Malykh A, Korotkov KV; et al. (2001). "Structure-expression relationships of the 15-kDa selenoprotein gene. Possible role of the protein in cancer etiology". J. Biol. Chem. 275 (45): 35540–7. doi:10.1074/jbc.M004014200. PMID 10945981.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Wiemann S, Weil B, Wellenreuther R; et al. (2001). "Toward a catalog of human genes and proteins: sequencing and analysis of 500 novel complete protein coding human cDNAs". Genome Res. 11 (3): 422–35. doi:10.1101/gr.154701. PMID 11230166.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Korotkov KV, Kumaraswamy E, Zhou Y; et al. (2001). "Association between the 15-kDa selenoprotein and UDP-glucose:glycoprotein glucosyltransferase in the endoplasmic reticulum of mammalian cells". J. Biol. Chem. 276 (18): 15330–6. doi:10.1074/jbc.M009861200. PMID 11278576.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Kumaraswamy E, Korotkov KV, Diamond AM; et al. (2002). "Genetic and functional analysis of mammalian Sep15 selenoprotein". Meth. Enzymol. 347: 187–97. PMID 11898406.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH; et al. (2003). "Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99 (26): 16899–903. doi:10.1073/pnas.242603899. PMID 12477932.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Wu HJ, Lin C, Zha YY; et al. (2003). "[Redox reactions of Sep15 and its relationship with tumor development]". Ai Zheng. 22 (2): 119–22. PMID 12600282.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Gevaert K, Goethals M, Martens L; et al. (2004). "Exploring proteomes and analyzing protein processing by mass spectrometric identification of sorted N-terminal peptides". Nat. Biotechnol. 21 (5): 566–9. doi:10.1038/nbt810. PMID 12665801.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Apostolou S, Klein JO, Mitsuuchi Y; et al. (2004). "Growth inhibition and induction of apoptosis in mesothelioma cells by selenium and dependence on selenoprotein SEP15 genotype". Oncogene. 23 (29): 5032–40. doi:10.1038/sj.onc.1207683. PMID 15107826.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Wellenreuther R, Schupp I, Poustka A; et al. (2004). "SMART amplification combined with cDNA size fractionation in order to obtain large full-length clones". BMC Genomics. 5 (1): 36. doi:10.1186/1471-2164-5-36. PMID 15198809.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Gerhard DS, Wagner L, Feingold EA; et al. (2004). "The status, quality, and expansion of the NIH full-length cDNA project: the Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC)". Genome Res. 14 (10B): 2121–7. doi:10.1101/gr.2596504. PMID 15489334.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Gregory SG, Barlow KF, McLay KE; et al. (2006). "The DNA sequence and biological annotation of human chromosome 1". Nature. 441 (7091): 315–21. doi:10.1038/nature04727. PMID 16710414.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)