Also known as HO-2, heme oxygenase 2
Heme oxygenase 2 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the HMOX2 gene.
Heme oxygenase, an essential enzyme in heme catabolism, cleaves heme to form biliverdin, which is subsequently converted to bilirubin by biliverdin reductase, and carbon monoxide, a putative neurotransmitter. Heme oxygenase activity is induced by its substrate heme and by various nonheme substances. Heme oxygenase occurs as 2 isozymes, an inducible heme oxygenase-1 and a constitutive heme oxygenase-2. HMOX1 and HMOX2 belong to the heme oxygenase family. Several alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding three different isoforms have been found for this gene. [provided by RefSeq, Oct 2013].
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Heme oxygenase 2 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the HMOX2 gene.
== Function ==
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Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).