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transmembrane protein 70

A TMEM70 gene provides instructions for making a protein called transmembrane protein 70. This protein is found in cell structures called mitochondria, which convert the energy from food into a form that cells can use. Transmembrane protein 70 is thought to play an important role in assembling and stabilizing a group of proteins called complex V. Complex V is the last of five complexes that carry out a multistep process called oxidative phosphorylation, through which cells derive much of their energy. Complex V is involved in the final step of oxidative phosphorylation. Specifically, one segment of complex V allows positively charged particles, called protons, to flow across a specialized membrane inside mitochondria. Another segment of complex V uses the energy created by this proton flow to convert a molecule called adenosine diphosphate (ADP) to adenosine triphosphate (ATP), which is used by the cell as energy.

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A TMEM70 gene provides instructions for making a protein called transmembrane protein 70. This protein is found in cell structures called mitochondria, which convert the energy from food into a form that cells can use. Transmembrane protein 70 is thought to play an important role in assembling and stabilizing a group of proteins called complex V. Complex V is the last of five complexes that carry out a multistep process called oxidative phosphorylation, through which cells derive much of their energy. Complex V is involved in the final step of oxidative phosphorylation. Specifically, one segment of complex V allows positively charged particles, called protons, to flow across a specialized membrane inside mitochondria. Another segment of complex V uses the energy created by this proton flow to convert a molecule called adenosine diphosphate (ADP) to adenosine triphosphate (ATP), which is used by the cell as energy.

Transmembrane protein 70 is also thought to be involved in the assembly of complex I, which is the first mitochondrial complex involved in oxidative phosphorylation.

Conditions referring to this gene or chromosome

Other names

FLJ20533

MC5DN2

transmembrane protein 70, mitochondrial isoform a

transmembrane protein 70, mitochondrial isoform b

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