SELENOH

This gene encodes a nucleolar protein, which belongs to the SelWTH family. It functions as an oxidoreductase, and has been shown to protect neurons against UVB-induced damage by inhibiting apoptotic cell death pathways, promote mitochondrial biogenesis and mitochondrial function, and suppress cellular senescence through genome maintenance and redox regulation. This protein is a selenoprotein, containing the rare amino acid selenocysteine (Sec) at its active site. 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, May 2016]

Description

Selenoprotein H

Tissue specificity

Low tissue specificity

Subcell location

Nucleoplasm, Nucleoli

Predicted location

Intracellular

Protein family

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

Chromosome

11 (57741250 - 57743554)

Ensembl ID

ENSG00000211450  (ver. 103.38)

Orthologs

Mouse Selenoh: ENSMUSG00000076437

UniProt

Q8IZQ5

neXtProt

NX_Q8IZQ5

Human splice variants
Mouse splice variants

Protein structure