Protein Name iron-sulfur cluster assembly enzyme
Organism Homo sapiens
Gene ID 23479
Gene Symbol

ISCU

UniProt Q9H1K1 (ISCU_HUMAN), A0A024RBI3 (A0A024RBI3_HUMAN), B3KQ30 (B3KQ30_HUMAN), B4DNC9 (B4DNC9_HUMAN), B1P7G3 (B1P7G3_HUMAN)
Relationships Total Number of functionally related compound(s) : 53
Total Number of Articles : 117
Description

iron-sulfur cluster assembly enzyme

Gene Summary

This gene encodes a component of the iron-sulfur (Fe-S) cluster scaffold. Fe-S clusters are cofactors that play a role in the function of a diverse set of enzymes, including those that regulate metabolism, iron homeostasis, and oxidative stress response. Alternative splicing results in transcript variants encoding different protein isoforms that localize either to the cytosol or to the mitochondrion. Mutations in this gene have been found in patients with hereditary myopathy with lactic acidosis. A disease-associated mutation in an intron may activate a cryptic splice site, resulting in the production of a splice variant encoding a putatively non-functional protein. A pseudogene of this gene is present on chromosome 1. [provided by RefSeq, Feb 2016]

synonyms
  • iron-sulfur cluster assembly enzyme ISCU
  • IscU iron-sulfur cluster scaffold homolog
  • iron-sulfur cluster assembly enzyme ISCU, mitochondrial
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