Glutathione peroxidase 6

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GPX6
Identifiers
Aliases GPX6 , GPX5p, GPXP3, GPx-6, GSHPx-6, dJ1186N24, dJ1186N24.1, glutathione peroxidase 6
External IDs OMIM: 607913; MGI: 1922762; HomoloGene: 130008; GeneCards: GPX6; OMA:GPX6 - orthologs
Orthologs
SpeciesHumanMouse
Entrez
Ensembl
UniProt
RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_182701

NM_145451

RefSeq (protein)

NP_874360

NP_663426

Location (UCSC) Chr 6: 28.5 – 28.53 Mb Chr 13: 21.5 – 21.5 Mb
PubMed search [3] [4]
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Glutathione peroxidase 6 (GPx-6) is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the GPX6 gene. [5] [6]

This gene product belongs to the glutathione peroxidase family, which functions in the detoxification of hydrogen peroxide. It contains a selenocysteine (Sec) residue at its active site. The selenocysteine is encoded by the UGA codon, which normally signals translation termination. The 3' UTR of Sec-containing genes have a common stem-loop structure, the sec insertion sequence (SECIS), which is necessary for the recognition of UGA as a Sec codon rather than as a stop signal. Expression of this gene is restricted to embryos and adult olfactory epithelium. [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 ENSG00000198704 GRCh38: Ensembl release 89: ENSG00000281185, ENSG00000198704 Ensembl, May 2017
  2. 1 2 3 GRCm38: Ensembl release 89: ENSMUSG00000004341 Ensembl, May 2017
  3. "Human PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
  4. "Mouse PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
  5. 1 2 "Entrez Gene: glutathione peroxidase 6 (olfactory)".
  6. Kryukov GV, Castellano S, Novoselov SV, Lobanov AV, Zehtab O, Guigó R, Gladyshev VN (May 2003). "Characterization of mammalian selenoproteomes". Science. 300 (5624): 1439–43. Bibcode:2003Sci...300.1439K. doi:10.1126/science.1083516. PMID   12775843. S2CID   10363908.

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