Selenomethionine: A Pink Trojan Redox Horse with Implications in Aging and Various Age-Related Diseases

• Main Authors: Muhammad Jawad Nasim (Author), Mhd Mouayad Zuraik (Author), Ahmad Yaman Abdin (Author), Yannick Ney (Author), Claus Jacob (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: MDPI AG, 2021-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Selenium is an essential trace element. Although this chalcogen forms a wide variety of compounds, there are surprisingly few small-molecule organic selenium compounds (OSeCs) in biology. Besides its more prominent relative selenocysteine (SeCys), the amino acid selenomethionine (SeMet) is one examp...