| Protein Name | frataxin |
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| Organism | Drosophila melanogaster |
| Gene ID | 31845 |
| Gene Symbol | fh |
| UniProt | Q9W385 (FRDA_DROME) |
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Total Number of functionally related compound(s) :
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Total Number of Articles : 14 |
Description |
frataxin |
| Gene Summary |
Enables ferrous iron binding activity and iron chaperone activity. Involved in several processes, including axonal transport of mitochondrion; determination of adult lifespan; and positive regulation of metabolic process. Is active in mitochondrion. Is expressed in organism. Used to study Friedreich ataxia and Friedreich ataxia 1. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in Friedreich ataxia; Friedreich ataxia 1; glioblastoma; and type 2 diabetes mellitus. Orthologous to human FXN (frataxin). [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Jun 2025] |
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