COX7A2L

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 a protein similar to polypeptides 1 and 2 of subunit VIIa in the C-terminal region, and also highly similar to the mouse Sig81 protein sequence. This gene is expressed in all tissues, and upregulated in a breast cancer cell line after estrogen treatment. It is possible that this gene represents a regulatory subunit of COX and mediates the higher level of energy production in target cells by estrogen. Several transcript variants, some protein-coding and others non-protein coding, have been found for this gene. [provided by RefSeq, Jan 2016]

Description

Cytochrome c oxidase subunit 7A2 like

Tissue specificity

Low tissue specificity

Subcell location

Nucleoli, Mitochondria

Predicted location

Intracellular, Membrane

Protein family

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

Chromosome

2 (42333546 - 42425088)

Ensembl ID

ENSG00000115944  (ver. 103.38)

Orthologs

Mouse Cox7a2l: ENSMUSG00000024248

UniProt

O14548

neXtProt

NX_O14548

Human splice variants
Mouse splice variants

Protein structure