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Sebek-khu

Sebek-khu, also known as Sobekhu, was an Egyptian commander and official under Senusret III of the Twelfth Dynasty, known from a stela found at Abydos in 1901.

Sebele I

Sebele I was kgosi (chief) of the Bakwena, a Tswana people in Botswana, ruling from 1892 to 1911. He joined the three dikgosi mission to Britain in 1895.

Sebelipase alfa

Sebelipase alfa (Kanuma) is a recombinant human lysosomal acid lipase enzyme replacement therapy for LAL deficiency, including Wolman disease, produced in transgenic hen egg white; EU-approved August 2015, FDA December 2015.

Sebennytos

Sebennytos, also called Samannud, was an ancient city in the Nile Delta of Lower Egypt and the residence of the 30th Dynasty, the last native dynasty of independent Egypt.

Sebeos

Sebeos, active in the 7th century, is the conventional name for the anonymous Armenian author of a history covering the last Perso-Roman war and the rise of Islam.

Seberg

Seberg (2019) is a political thriller by Benedict Andrews starring Kristen Stewart as Jean Seberg, the Breathless actress targeted by the FBI's COINTELPRO over her Black Panther ties; premiered at Venice 2019, released by Amazon Studios.

Sebetti temple (Kalhu)

Sebetti temple (Kalhu), Bit-Sibitti, a Neo-Assyrian sanctuary of the seven Sebetti gods built by Ashurnasirpal II at Nimrud, known only from inscriptions; its location remains unlocated.

Sebhat Aregawi

Sebhat Aregawi (ስብሐት አረጋዊ) was a Tigrayan nobleman and warrior prince who served as governor of Agamé in northern Ethiopia and fought at the Battle of Adwa in 1896.

Sebhat Gebre-Egziabher

Sebhat Gebre-Egziabher (ስብሐት ገብረ እግዚአብሔር; 1936–2012) was an Ethiopian journalist and author from Tigray, remembered for introducing a naturalistic, sexually frank style into Amharic literature; his first novel was published only in 2004.

Sebilian

The Sebilian is a Late Palaeolithic stone-tool industry of the Nile valley in Upper Egypt and Nubia, named after the village of Sebil and dated to roughly 12.6–16.9 thousand years ago.

Sebk-i Hindi

Sebk-i Hindi (Persian: سبک هندی, "Indian style") is a poetic movement of the 16th to 18th centuries developed by Persian-speaking poets in India, later influencing Iranian, Ottoman, and Urdu poetry.

Sebkay

Sebkay, also known as Woseribre Seneb-Kay, was a pharaoh of the Abydos Dynasty who ruled from Abydos in Upper Egypt around 1650-1600 BC, during the late Second Intermediate Period.

Sebkhet Sidi Elhani

Sebkhet Sidi Elhani (Sebkha Sidi El Hani) is a 36,000 ha intermittently flooded salt lake, or sebkha, in Tunisia's Sahel between Sousse and Mahdia; Ramsar site no. 2019 since 2012 and a BirdLife IBA important for greater flamingo and common crane.

Şebnem Paker

Şebnem Paker is a Turkish singer, guitarist, and music teacher who represented Turkey at Eurovision in 1996 and 1997, finishing third in Dublin with "Dinle".

Sebocystomatosis

Sebocystomatosis, also called steatocystoma multiplex (OMIM 184500), is a rare autosomal dominant disorder with KRT17 mutations causing multiple benign sebum-filled dermal cysts on the chest, axillae, and upper arms, typically appearing at puberty.

Sebocyte

Sebocyte: the specialized lipid-producing epithelial cell of the sebaceous gland (sebaceous gland cell), releasing sebum by holocrine secretion. Defined by androgen/PPARγ regulation, wax ester and sapienic acid output, and roles in acne.

Seborrheic keratosis

Seborrhoeic keratosis (seborrheic keratosis, senile wart, basal cell papilloma) is a benign keratinocyte skin growth, extremely common after age 60, diagnosed clinically and by dermoscopy, treated by cryotherapy, curettage, or lasers.

Seborrhoea

Seborrhoea (seborrhea, oily skin, hypersteatosis) is excessive sebum secretion causing greasy skin, ICD-11 ED91.2. Distinct from seborrhoeic dermatitis; linked to acne, acromegaly, and Parkinson disease.

Seborrhoeic dermatitis

Seborrhoeic dermatitis, also called seborrheic eczema, is a common, relapsing eczema affecting oily areas like the scalp, face, and trunk, linked to Malassezia yeast and managed rather than cured.

Seborrhoeic dermatitis of the scalp

Seborrhoeic dermatitis of the scalp (ICD-11 EA81.1; dandruff is its mild form) is a chronic relapsing inflammatory scalp disease linked to Malassezia yeasts, sebum, and immune dysregulation, treated with antifungal and anti-inflammatory shampoos.

Sebring, Florida

Sebring, Florida: county seat of Highlands County, founded 1912 by George Sebring around a circular downtown plan. About 12,000 residents; home of Sebring International Raceway and the 12 Hours of Sebring.

Sebüktigin's victories over Jayapala

Sebüktigin's victories over Jayapala (نبردهای سبکتگین و جیپال) were wars in which Sebuktigin, Ghaznavid ruler of Ghazna, defeated Jayapala, the Hindu Shahi raja of northwestern India.

SEC Baseball Tournament

The SEC Baseball Tournament is the annual postseason championship of the Southeastern Conference, held since 1998 at Hoover Metropolitan Stadium in Alabama and awarding the SEC's automatic NCAA Tournament bid.

SEC Championship Game

SEC Championship Game: annual college football title game of the Southeastern Conference, first played in 1992 at Legion Field, Birmingham; now at Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Atlanta, with the winner guaranteed a College Football Playoff bid.

Sec-independent periplasmic protein translocase TatC

TatC is the six-transmembrane-helix receptor protein of the bacterial twin-arginine translocation (Tat) pathway, recognizing twin-arginine signal peptides and forming the TatBC core complex that transports folded proteins.

Sec-independent protein translocase protein TatB

TatB (Sec-independent protein translocase protein TatB, E. coli tatB, P69425) is a 171-residue single-pass membrane protein that with TatC forms the Tat receptor binding twin-arginine signal peptides and proofreads substrate folding; absent from most Gram-positive bacteria.

Sec16, central conserved domain

Sec16 central conserved domain (CCD), the ~400-amino-acid folded core of the Sec16 scaffold protein at ER exit sites; binds Sec13, Sec24, and Sec31, forms a 2:2 Sec16-Sec13 tetramer, and is conserved across eukaryotes though not essential for viability.

SEC16A

SEC16A (KIAA0310, Sec16L), human gene on 9q34.3 encoding a 2357-aa scaffold protein organizing ER exit sites and COPII ER-to-Golgi transport; paralog SEC16B; linked to neurodevelopmental disorder and chronic pancreatitis.

Sec63 domain

Sec63 domain (Pfam PF02889, InterPro IPR004179), also called the Brl domain, named after yeast Sec63/NPL1; a conserved eukaryotic domain required for assembly of functional ER translocons, also found in helicases BRR2 and HFM1.

Sec7 domain

Sec7 domain, also called SEC7 homology domain, is a roughly 200-residue catalytic GEF domain for ARF small GTPases, named after yeast SEC7; it has ten alpha-helices, a glutamic-finger catalytic glutamate, and is targeted by brefeldin A.