Biology:COX7A1

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Short description: Protein-coding gene in the species Homo sapiens


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Cytochrome c oxidase polypeptide 7A1, mitochondrial is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the COX7A1 gene.[1][2][3]

Cytochrome c oxidase (COX), the terminal component of the mitochondrial respiratory chain, catalyzes the electron transfer from reduced cytochrome c to oxygen. This component is a heteromeric complex consisting of 3 catalytic subunits encoded by mitochondrial genes and multiple structural subunits encoded by nuclear genes. The mitochondrially-encoded subunits function in electron transfer, and the nuclear-encoded subunits may function in the regulation and assembly of the complex. This nuclear gene encodes polypeptide 1 (muscle isoform) of subunit VIIa and the polypeptide 1 is present only in muscle tissues. Other polypeptides of subunit VIIa are present in both muscle and nonmuscle tissues, and are encoded by different genes.[3]

References

  1. "Tissue-specific expression and chromosome assignment of genes specifying two isoforms of subunit VIIa of human cytochrome c oxidase". Gene 119 (2): 299–305. Nov 1992. doi:10.1016/0378-1119(92)90287-Y. PMID 1327965. 
  2. "Sequence of a cDNA specifying subunit VIIa of human cytochrome c oxidase". Nucleic Acids Res 17 (17): 7107. Oct 1989. doi:10.1093/nar/17.17.7107. PMID 2550906. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 "Entrez Gene: COX7A1 cytochrome c oxidase subunit VIIa polypeptide 1 (muscle)". https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=gene&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=1346. 

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