SH3 domain-binding glutamic acid-rich-like protein 3 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SH3BGRL3 gene.
The 10.5kDa protein SH3 binding glutamic acid-rich protein-like 3 has an isoelectric point of 5.0. SH3 binding glutamic acid-rich (SH3BGR) gene is located to human chromosome 21. Two homologous genes, SH3BGRL and SH3BGRL3 are located to chromosome Xq13.3 and 1p34.3-35, respectively and code for small proteins similar to the N-terminal region of the SH3BGR protein. SH3BGRL3 protein shows a significant similarity to glutaredoxin 1 of E. coli, and all the three proteins are predicted to belong to thioredoxin-like protein family. Glutaredoxins (GRXs) are ubiquitous oxidoreductases, which catalyze the reduction of many intra-cellular protein disulfides and play an important role in many redox pathways. However, the SH3BGRL3 protein lacks the enzymatic function of glutaredoxins and may have a role as a regulator of redox activity.
