Mitochondrial manganese superoxide dismutase; protects cells against oxygen toxicity and oxidative stress; human mitochondrial SOD2 can complement a yeast null mutant and human cytoplasmic SOD1 can also complement when targeted to the mitochondrial matrix [Source:SGD;Acc:S000001050]
Chromosome VIII: 122,889-123,590 reverse strand.
R64-1-1:BK006934.2
This gene has 1 transcript (splice variant), 343 orthologues, 2 paralogues and is a member of 1 Ensembl protein family.