DISEASES

Disease-gene associations mined from literature

Literature on GPX2

GPX2 [ENSP00000374265]

Glutathione peroxidase 2; Could play a major role in protecting mammals from the toxicity of ingested organic hydroperoxides. Tert-butyl hydroperoxide, cumene hydroperoxide and linoleic acid hydroperoxide but not phosphatidycholine hydroperoxide, can act as acceptors.

Synonyms:  GPX2,  GPX2p,  hGPX2,  A0A087WTS0,  G3V323 ...

Linkouts:  STRING  Pharos  UniProt  OMIM