Entrez gene ID | | 55829 |
Official gene symbol | | VIMP |
Full name | | selenoprotein S |
Aliases | | ,ADO15,SBBI8,SELS,SEPS1, |
Gene summary | | This gene encodes a selenoprotein, which contains a selenocysteine (Sec) residue at its active site. The selenocysteine is encoded by the UGA codon that normally signals translation termination. The 3' UTR of selenoprotein genes have a common stem-loop structure, the sec insertion sequence (SECIS), that is necessary for the recognition of UGA as a Sec codon rather than as a stop signal. Studies suggest that this protein may regulate cytokine production, and thus play a key role in the control of the inflammatory response. Two alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding the same protein have been found for this gene. [provided by RefSeq] |
Location | | Chromosome: 15 Locus: 15q26.3 |
Gene position | | 101817700 - 101811214 Map Viewer |
Gene orientation | | minus |
Gene size | | 6487 bp |
Gene sequence |
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OMIM ID | | 607918 |
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