GPX3

GPX3
Available structures
PDBOrtholog search: PDBe RCSB
Identifiers
Aliases GPX3, GPx-P, GSHPx-3, GSHPx-P, glutathione peroxidase 3
External IDs MGI: 105102 HomoloGene: 20480 GeneCards: GPX3
Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez

2878

14778

Ensembl

ENSG00000211445

ENSMUSG00000018339

UniProt

P22352

P46412

RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_002084

NM_001083929
NM_008161

RefSeq (protein)

NP_002075.2

NP_032187.2

Location (UCSC) Chr 5: 151.02 – 151.03 Mb Chr 11: 54.9 – 54.91 Mb
PubMed search [1] [2]
Wikidata
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Glutathione peroxidase 3 (GPx-3), also known as plasma glutathione peroxidase (GPx-P) or extracellular glutathione peroxidase is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the GPX3 gene.[3][4][5]

GPx-3 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.[3]

References

  1. "Human PubMed Reference:".
  2. "Mouse PubMed Reference:".
  3. 1 2 "Entrez Gene: glutathione peroxidase 3 (plasma)".
  4. Takahashi K, Avissar N, Whitin J, Cohen H (August 1987). "Purification and characterization of human plasma glutathione peroxidase: a selenoglycoprotein distinct from the known cellular enzyme". Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 256 (2): 677–86. doi:10.1016/0003-9861(87)90624-2. PMID 3619451.
  5. Chu FF (1994). "The human glutathione peroxidase genes GPX2, GPX3, and GPX4 map to chromosomes 14, 5, and 19, respectively". Cytogenet. Cell Genet. 66 (2): 96–8. doi:10.1159/000133675. PMID 8287691.

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