ID:GPX2_HUMAN DESCRIPTION: RecName: Full=Glutathione peroxidase 2; Short=GPx-2; Short=GSHPx-2; EC=1.11.1.9; AltName: Full=Gastrointestinal glutathione peroxidase; AltName: Full=Glutathione peroxidase-gastrointestinal; Short=GPx-GI; Short=GSHPx-GI; AltName: Full=Glutathione peroxidase-related protein 2; Short=GPRP-2; FUNCTION: Could play a major role in protecting mammals from the toxicity of ingested organic hydroperoxides. Tert-butyl hydroperoxide, cumene hydroperoxide and linoleic acid hydroperoxide but not phosphatidycholine hydroperoxide, can act as acceptors. CATALYTIC ACTIVITY: 2 glutathione + H(2)O(2) = glutathione disulfide + 2 H(2)O. SUBUNIT: Homotetramer. SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: Cytoplasm. Note=Mainly cytoplasmic. TISSUE SPECIFICITY: Mostly in liver and gastrointestinal tract, not found in heart or kidney. SIMILARITY: Belongs to the glutathione peroxidase family. WEB RESOURCE: Name=NIEHS-SNPs; URL="http://egp.gs.washington.edu/data/gpx2/";
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 P18283
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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.
Biological Process: GO:0006979 response to oxidative stress GO:0022900 electron transport chain GO:0034599 cellular response to oxidative stress GO:0055114 oxidation-reduction process GO:0098869 cellular oxidant detoxification