Entrez gene ID | | 3145 |
Official gene symbol | | HMBS |
Full name | | hydroxymethylbilane synthase |
Aliases | | ,PBG-D,PBGD,PORC,UPS, |
Gene summary | | This gene encodes a member of the hydroxymethylbilane synthase superfamily. The encoded protein is the third enzyme of the heme biosynthetic pathway and catalyzes the head to tail condensation of four porphobilinogen molecules into the linear hydroxymethylbilane. Mutations in this gene are associated with the autosomal dominant disease acute intermittent porphyria. Alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been described. [provided by RefSeq] |
Location | | Chromosome: 11 Locus: 11q23.3 |
Gene position | | 118955587 - 118964259 Map Viewer |
Gene orientation | | plus |
Gene size | | 8673 bp |
Gene sequence |
| |
OMIM ID | | 609806 |
|