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TUFM

Elongation factor Tu, mitochondrial is a protein that in humans is encoded by the TUFM gene. It is an EF-Tu homolog.

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Source
TUFM
Identifiers
AliasesTUFM, COXPD4, EF-TuMT, EFTU, P43, Tu translation elongation factor, mitochondrial
External IDsOMIM: 602389; MGI: 1923686; HomoloGene: 2490; GeneCards: TUFM; OMA:TUFM - orthologs
Orthologs
SpeciesHumanMouse
Entrez
Ensembl
UniProt
RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_003321
NM_001365360

NM_001163713
NM_172745

RefSeq (protein)

NP_003312
NP_001352289

NP_001157185
NP_766333

Location (UCSC)Chr 16: 28.84 – 28.85 MbChr 7: 126.09 – 126.09 Mb
PubMed search34
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Elongation factor Tu, mitochondrial is a protein that in humans is encoded by the TUFM gene. It is an EF-Tu homolog.567

References

References

  1. GRCh38: Ensembl release 89: ENSG00000178952Ensembl, May 2017
  2. GRCm38: Ensembl release 89: ENSMUSG00000073838Ensembl, May 2017
  3. "Human PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
  4. "Mouse PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
  5. Ling M, Merante F, Chen HS, Duff C, Duncan AM, Robinson BH (Nov 1997). "The human mitochondrial elongation factor tu (EF-Tu) gene: cDNA sequence, genomic localization, genomic structure, and identification of a pseudogene". Gene. 197 (1–2): 325–36. doi:10.1016/S0378-1119(97)00279-5. PMID 9332382.
  6. Shah ZH, Migliosi V, Miller SC, Wang A, Friedman TB, Jacobs HT (Jun 1998). "Chromosomal locations of three human nuclear genes (RPSM12, TUFM, and AFG3L1) specifying putative components of the mitochondrial gene expression apparatus". Genomics. 48 (3): 384–8. doi:10.1006/geno.1997.5166. PMID 9545647.
  7. "Entrez Gene: TUFM Tu translation elongation factor, mitochondrial".
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