Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-General Subjects

The labour pains of biochemical selenology: the history of selenoprotein biosynthesis

L Flohé

Index: Imai Hoppe-Seyler's Zeitschrift fuer Physiologische Chemie, 1924 , vol. 136, p. 193

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Citation Number: 59

Abstract

The serendipitous discoveries leading to the present knowledge on selenium's role in biology are reviewed. Detected in 1818 as by-product of sulphuric acid prod.