Methylselenocysteine (Me-Sec), also known as '''Se-methylselenocysteine' (SeMSC), is an analog of S''-methylcysteine in which the sulfur atom is replaced with a selenium atom.
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Methylselenocysteine (Me-Sec), also known as '''Se-methylselenocysteine' (SeMSC), is an analog of S-methylcysteine in which the sulfur atom is replaced with a selenium atom.
== Occurrence == Methylselenocysteine is found in many vegetables: "as much as 80% of the total selenium" found in Allium species (onion, leek, garlic, ramps) Brassica species (broccoli, radish, Brussels sprouts, cabbage), and milk vetch (Astragalus species, Fabaceae) is present as Se-methylselenocysteine. It is also present in selenized yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae grown in a high-selenium culture).
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).