- "Cox1" redirects here. Particularly in a medical context, this can also refer to cyclooxygenase-1 (COX-1).
Cytochrome c oxidase I (
COX1) also known as
mitochondrially encoded cytochrome c oxidase I (
MT-CO1) is a
protein that in humans is encoded by the MT-CO1
gene. In other
eukaryotes, the gene is called
COX1,
CO1, or
COI. Cytochrome c oxidase I is the main subunit of the
cytochrome c oxidase complex.