DIO1

iodothyronine deiodinase 1

Summary

The protein encoded by this gene belongs to the iodothyronine deiodinase family. It catalyzes the activation, as well as the inactivation of thyroid hormone by outer and inner ring deiodination, respectively. The activation reaction involves the conversion of the prohormone thyroxine (3,5,3',5'-tetraiodothyronine, T4), secreted by the thyroid gland, to the bioactive thyroid hormone (3,5,3'-triiodothyronine, T3) by 5'-deiodination. This protein provides most of the circulating T3, which is essential for growth, differentiation and basal metabolism in vertebrates. This protein is a selenoprotein, containing the rare amino acid selenocysteine (Sec) at its active site. Sec is encoded by the UGA codon, which normally signals translation termination. The 3' UTRs of selenoprotein mRNAs contain a conserved stem-loop structure, designated the Sec insertion sequence (SECIS) element, that is necessary for the recognition of UGA as a Sec codon, rather than as a stop signal. Alternatively spliced transcript variants have been found for this gene. [provided by RefSeq, Jun 2018]

Known Variants16 total

rsidPosition (GRCh37)AllelesClassClinVar
rs7516094261:54,360,016G/Tuncertain significance
rs7676773801:54,360,019G/Auncertain significance
rs3753094121:54,360,026C/Tuncertain significance
rs13652923981:54,360,064T/Cuncertain significance
rs7543922871:54,360,112G/Auncertain significance
rs1509574531:54,360,115C/Tuncertain significance
rs7546948151:54,360,165C/Apathogenic
rs356780031:54,360,171G/Abenign
rs7598950181:54,370,389A/Clikely benign
rs7692937581:54,371,792T/Cuncertain significance
rs2014205071:54,371,889G/Apathogenic
rs7728137081:54,371,956A/Guncertain significance
rs22355441:54,375,570C/Aregulatory region variantdrug response
rs7663399631:54,375,643C/Tuncertain significance
rs112062441:54,375,701C/Tregulatory region variant
rs120950801:54,376,730A/G3 prime UTR variant

Gene information from NCBI Gene. Variant classifications from ClinVar.