MT3 (metallothionein 3)
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Entrez ID
Entrez Gene ID - the GENE ID in NCBI Gene database.
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4504 |
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Gene name
Gene Name - the full gene name approved by the HGNC.
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Metallothionein 3 |
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Gene symbol
Gene Symbol - the official gene symbol approved by the HGNC.
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MT3 |
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Synonyms (NCBI Gene)
Gene synonyms aliases
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GIF, GIFB, GRIF, ZnMT3 |
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Chromosome
Chromosome number
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16 |
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Chromosome location
Chromosomal Location - indicates the cytogenetic location of the gene or region on the chromosome.
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16q13 |
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Summary
Summary of gene provided in NCBI Entrez Gene.
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This gene is a member of the metallothionein family of genes. Proteins encoded by this gene family are low in molecular weight, are cysteine-rich, lack aromatic residues, and bind divalent heavy metal ions. This gene family member displays tissue-specific |
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miRNA
miRNA information provided by mirtarbase database.
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Gene ontology (GO)
Gene ontology information of associated ontologies with gene provided by GO database.
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Other IDs
Other ids provides unique ids of gene in databases such as OMIM, HGNC, ENSEMBLE.
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| UniProt ID | P25713 | ||||||||||
| Protein name | Metallothionein-3 (MT-3) (GIFB) (GIF) (Growth inhibitory factor) (Metallothionein-III) (MT-III) | ||||||||||
| Protein function | Binds heavy metals. Contains three zinc and three copper atoms per polypeptide chain and only a negligible amount of cadmium. Inhibits survival and neurite formation of cortical neurons in vitro. | ||||||||||
| PDB | 2F5H , 2FJ4 , 2FJ5 | ||||||||||
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Pfam
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| Tissue specificity | TISSUE SPECIFICITY: Abundant in a subset of astrocytes in the normal human brain, but greatly reduced in the Alzheimer disease (AD) brain. | ||||||||||
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| Sequence length | 68 | ||||||||||
| Interactions | View interactions | ||||||||||
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Pathways
Pathway information has different metabolic/signaling pathways associated with genes.
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Associated diseases
Disease associations categorized as Causal (pathogenic variants), Unknown (uncertain genetic evidence), or Text Mining (literature-based associations)
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