| Entrez gene ID | | 20768 |
| Official gene symbol | | Sephs2 |
| Full name | | selenophosphate synthetase 2 |
| Aliases | | Sps2,Ysg3 |
| Gene summary | | This gene encodes an enzyme that synthesizes selenophosphate from selenide and ATP. Selenophosphate is the selenium donor used to synthesize selenocysteine (Sec) that is co-translationally incorporated into selenoproteins at in-frame UGA codons, which normally signal translation termination. This protein itself contains a Sec residue in its predicted active site. The 3' UTR of this gene has a stem-loop secondary structure called a selenocysteine insertion sequence (SECIS) element, which is necessary for the recognition of UGA as a Sec codon rather than as a stop signal. [provided by RefSeq] |
| Location | | Chromosome: 7 Locus: 7 F3|7 62.0 cM |
| Gene position | | 134417573 - 134415393 Map Viewer |
| Gene orientation | | minus |
| Gene size | | 2181 bp |
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