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An unusual feature of the MT-ATP8 gene is its 46-nucleotide overlap with the MT-ATP6 gene. With respect to the reading frame (+1) of MT-ATP8, the MT-ATP6 gene starts on the +3 reading frame. The MT-ATP8 protein weighs 8 kDa and is composed of 68 amino acids.
Stop codon (red dot) of the human mitochondrial DNA MT-ATP8 gene, and start codon (blue circle) of the MT-ATP6 gene. For each nucleotide triplet (square brackets), the corresponding amino acid is given (one-letter code), either in the +1 reading frame for MT-ATP8 (in red) or in the +3 frame for MT-ATP6 (in blue).
Gene Type Product Positions in the mitogenome Strand MT-ATP8: protein coding: ATP synthase, Fo subunit 8 (complex V) 08,366–08,572 (overlap with MT-ATP6) H MT-ATP6: protein coding ATP synthase, Fo subunit 6 (complex V) 08,527–09,207 (overlap with MT-ATP8) H MT-CO1: protein coding Cytochrome c oxidase, subunit 1 (complex IV) 05,904–07,445 ...
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The human MT-ATP6 gene, located in mitochondrial DNA, is 681 base pairs in length. [7] An unusual feature of MT-ATP6 is the 46-nucleotide gene overlap of its first codons with the end of the MT-ATP8 gene. With respect to the MT-ATP6 reading frame (+3), the MT-ATP8 gene ends in the +1 reading frame with a TAG stop codon.
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Schematic karyogram showing the human genome, with 23 chromosome pairs, and the human mitochondrial genome to scale at bottom left (annotated "MT"). Its genome is relatively tiny compared to the rest, and its copy number per human cell varies from 0 ( erythrocytes ) [ 1 ] up to 1,500,000 ( oocytes ).