Entrez gene ID | | 64577 |
Official gene symbol | | ALDH8A1 |
Full name | | aldehyde dehydrogenase 8 family, member A1 |
Aliases | | ,ALDH12,DJ352A20.2,DKFZp779D2315,MGC138650, |
Gene summary | | This protein belongs to the aldehyde dehydrogenases family of proteins. It plays a role in a pathway of 9-cis-retinoic acid biosynthesis in vivo. This enzyme converts 9-cis-retinal into the retinoid X receptor ligand 9-cis-retinoic acid, and has approximately 40-fold higher activity with 9-cis-retinal than with all-trans-retinal. Therefore, it is the first known aldehyde dehydrogenase to show a preference for 9-cis-retinal relative to all-trans-retinal. Three transcript variants encoding distinct protein isoforms have been identified for this gene. [provided by RefSeq] |
Location | | Chromosome: 6 Locus: 6q23.2 |
Gene position | | 135271260 - 135238528 Map Viewer |
Gene orientation | | minus |
Gene size | | 32733 bp |
Gene sequence |
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OMIM ID | | 606467 |