Modulation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) plays a key role in signal transduction
pathways. Selenoproteins act controlling the redox balance of the cell. We have studied how …

To study the function of selenoproteins in development and growth we have used a lethal
mutation ({\it selD [TeX:]^{\it ptuf}}) of the {\it Drosophila} homologous selenophosphate …

Several lines of evidence indicate that selenoproteins mainly act as cellular antioxidants.
Here, we test this idea comparing the sensitivity to oxidative stress (paraquat and hydrogen …

Background: Insects appear to have diverged from both higher and lower organisms in their
defense mechanisms against oxidative damage. They do not encode glutathione …

The cellular antioxidant defense systems neutralize the cytotoxic by-products referred to as
reactive oxygen species (ROS). Among them, selenoproteins have important antioxidant …

The patufet gene encodes the Drosophila melanogaster homologue of selenophosphate
synthetase, an enzyme required for selenoprotein synthesis, and appears to have a role in …

Selenoprotein synthesis is conserved from bacteria to man. It involves the differential
decoding of the UGA stop codon as selenocysteine. The proteomes of both prokaryotes and …

Selenoprotein T (SelT) is a recently characterized thioredoxin‐like protein whose expression
is very high during development, but is confined to endocrine tissues in adulthood where its …

Abstract dSelK (G-rich), a homolog of human and mouse SelK, is one of three
selenoproteins in Drosophila melanogaster. It is the only trans-membrane selenoprotein in …

Selenoproteins are essential in vertebrates because of their crucial role in cellular redox
homeostasis, but some invertebrates that lack selenoproteins have recently been identified …