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/T—uncertain significance
rs7676773801:54,360,019G/A—uncertain significance
rs3753094121:54,360,026C/T—uncertain significance
rs13652923981:54,360,064T/C—uncertain significance
rs7543922871:54,360,112G/A—uncertain significance
rs1509574531:54,360,115C/T—uncertain significance
rs7546948151:54,360,165C/A—pathogenic
rs356780031:54,360,171G/A—benign
rs7598950181:54,370,389A/C—likely benign
rs7692937581:54,371,792T/C—uncertain significance
rs2014205071:54,371,889G/A—pathogenic
rs7728137081:54,371,956A/G—uncertain significance
rs22355441:54,375,570C/Aregulatory region variantdrug response
rs7663399631:54,375,643C/T—uncertain 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.