SELENOF

The protein encoded by this gene belongs to the SEP15/selenoprotein M family. The exact function of this protein is not known; however, it has been found to associate with UDP-glucose:glycoprotein glucosyltransferase (UGTR), an endoplasmic reticulum(ER)-resident protein, which is involved in the quality control of protein folding. The association with UGTR retains this protein in the ER, where it may play a role in protein folding. It has also been suggested to have a role in cancer etiology. This protein is a selenoprotein, containing the rare amino acid selenocysteine (Sec). Sec is encoded by the UGA codon, which normally signals translation termination. The 3' UTRs of selenoprotein mRNAs contain a conserved stem-loop structure, designated the Sec insertion sequence (SECIS) element, that is necessary for the recognition of UGA as a Sec codon, rather than as a stop signal. Alternatively spliced transcript variants have been found for this gene. [provided by RefSeq, Nov 2016]

Description

Selenoprotein F

Tissue specificity

Low tissue specificity

Subcell location

Nucleoli, Cytosol

Predicted location

Intracellular

Protein family

Mapped to neXtProt
Mapped to UniProt SWISS-PROT
Plasma proteins
Predicted intracellular proteins
Protein evidence (Ezkurdia et al 2014)
Protein evidence (Kim et al 2014)

Chromosome

1 (86862445 - 86914424)

Ensembl ID

ENSG00000183291  (ver. 103.38)

Orthologs

Mouse Selenof: ENSMUSG00000037072

UniProt

O60613

neXtProt

NX_O60613

Human splice variants
Mouse splice variants

Protein structure