Literature summary extracted from

Costa, F.C.; Oliva, M.A.; de Jesus, T.C.; Schenkman, S.; Thiemann, O.H.
Oxidative stress protection of Trypanosomes requires selenophosphate synthase (2011), Mol. Biochem. Parasitol., 180, 47-50.

Organism

EC Number	Organism	UniProt	Comment	Textmining
2.7.9.3	Trypanosoma brucei	Q38A34	-	-

Synonyms

EC Number	Synonyms	Comment	Organism
2.7.9.3	selenophosphate synthetase	-	Trypanosoma brucei
2.7.9.3	Sps2	isoform	Trypanosoma brucei

General Information

EC Number	General Information	Comment	Organism
2.7.9.3	malfunction	isoform SPS2 absence severely hampers the parasite survival in the presence of an oxidizing environment that results in an apoptotic-like phenotype and cell death	Trypanosoma brucei
2.7.9.3	physiological function	isoform SPS2 is involved in oxidative stress protection of the parasite	Trypanosoma brucei

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Release 2023.1 (January 2023)