| ncRNA Symbol: | GFM2 |
| Full Name: | G elongation factor mitochondrial 2 |
| Category: | mRNA |
| Synonyms: | EF-G2mt|EFG2|MRRF2|MST027|MSTP027|RRF2|RRF2mt|hEFG2|mEF-G 2 |
| Chromosome: | chr5 |
| Strand: | - |
| Coordinate: | | Start Site(bp): | 74721204 | End Site(bp): | 74767371 | |
| Gene Summary: | Eukaryotes contain two protein translational systems, one in the cytoplasm and one in the mitochondria. Mitochondrial translation is crucial for maintaining mitochondrial function and mutations in this system lead to a breakdown in the respiratory chain-oxidative phosphorylation system and to impaired maintenance of mitochondrial DNA. This gene encodes one of the mitochondrial translation elongation factors, which is a GTPase that plays a role at the termination of mitochondrial translation by mediating the disassembly of ribosomes from messenger RNA . Its role in the regulation of normal mitochondrial function and in disease states attributed to mitochondrial dysfunction is not known. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants encoding distinct isoforms. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2013] |
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