ID:THBG_HUMAN DESCRIPTION: RecName: Full=Thyroxine-binding globulin; AltName: Full=Serpin A7; AltName: Full=T4-binding globulin; Flags: Precursor; FUNCTION: Major thyroid hormone transport protein in serum. SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: Secreted. TISSUE SPECIFICITY: Expressed by the liver and secreted in plasma. POLYMORPHISM: Two qualitative TBG variants occur in particular populations. TBG-A is found in 40% of Australian aborigines, it has reduced affinity for thyroxine and triiodothyroxine and increased susceptibility to inactivation by heat or acid. TBG-S ('s' for slow shift on isoelectic focusing) is found in blacks, Eskimos, Melanesians, Polynesians and Indonesians, but not in Caucasians; TBG-S is slightly more thermolabile. DISEASE: Defects in SERPINA7 are a cause of thyroxine-binding globulin deficiency (TBG deficiency) [MIM:314200]. Mutations in the SERPINA7 gene can result as a whole spectrum of deficiencies, characterized by either reduced or increased TBG levels in the serum. Patients show, respectively, reduced or elevated protein- bound iodine but are euthyroid. SIMILARITY: Belongs to the serpin family.
The RNAfold program from the Vienna RNA Package is used to perform the secondary structure predictions and folding calculations. The estimated folding energy is in kcal/mol. The more negative the energy, the more secondary structure the RNA is likely to have.
ModBase Predicted Comparative 3D Structure on P05543
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Orthologous Genes in Other Species
Orthologies between human, mouse, and rat are computed by taking the best BLASTP hit, and filtering out non-syntenic hits. For more distant species reciprocal-best BLASTP hits are used. Note that the absence of an ortholog in the table below may reflect incomplete annotations in the other species rather than a true absence of the orthologous gene.
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