FIG. 2.

Comparison of the selenoprotein transcriptome in human and mouse T cells. Total RNA was extracted from T cells from a normal healthy volunteer and real-time polymerase chain reaction was performed with primers as previously described (240). Levels of each mRNA were normalized to the housekeeping mRNA, ubiquitin c, and the relative abundance compared with published results for mouse T cells (36). Results show some similarities between human and mouse T cells, with the most abundant mRNAs common to both species. One exception to this is SelP, which is much higher in relative abundance in mouse T cells compared with humans.