Primary Identifier | MGI:96825 | Organism | mouse, laboratory |
Chromosome | 3 | NCBI Gene Number | 20341 |
Mgi Type | protein coding gene |
description | FUNCTION: Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 8.0.0) Predicted to enable methanethiol oxidase activity. Acts upstream of or within brown fat cell differentiation. Predicted to be located in fibrillar center. Is expressed in several structures, including gut; liver; lung; male reproductive gland or organ; and olfactory epithelium. Orthologous to human SELENBP1 (selenium binding protein 1). PHENOTYPE: Mice homozygous for a knock-out allele exhibit sex-specific changes in organ weights. Mice homozygous for a different allele lack methanethiol oxidase activity and exhibit an increase in dimethylsulfide and dimethyl-sulfone serum levels. [provided by MGI curators] |