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Homo sapiens Gene: ALAD
Summary
InnateDB Gene IDBG-81719.6
Last Modified 2014-10-13 [Report errors or provide feedback]
Gene Symbol ALAD
Gene Name aminolevulinate dehydratase
Synonyms ALADH; PBGS
Species Homo sapiens
Ensembl Gene ENSG00000148218
Encoded Proteins
IDBP-295310
aminolevulinate dehydratase
IDBP-378161
aminolevulinate dehydratase
IDBP-378165
aminolevulinate dehydratase
IDBP-378168
aminolevulinate dehydratase
Protein Structure
Useful resources Stemformatics EHFPI ImmGen
Entrez Gene
Summary The ALAD enzyme is composed of 8 identical subunits and catalyzes the condensation of 2 molecules of delta-aminolevulinate to form porphobilinogen (a precursor of heme, cytochromes and other hemoproteins). ALAD catalyzes the second step in the porphyrin and heme biosynthetic pathway; zinc is essential for enzymatic activity. ALAD enzymatic activity is inhibited by lead and a defect in the ALAD structural gene can cause increased sensitivity to lead poisoning and acute hepatic porphyria. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]
Gene Information
Type Protein coding
Genomic Location Chromosome 9:113386317-113401333
Strand Reverse strand
Band q32
Transcripts
ENST00000409155 ENSP00000386284
ENST00000448137 ENSP00000392748
ENST00000452726 ENSP00000415737
ENST00000445750 ENSP00000398438
ENST00000482847
ENST00000468504
ENST00000464749
ENST00000482001
ENST00000494848
Interactions
Number of Interactions This gene and/or its encoded proteins are associated with 19 experimentally validated interaction(s) in this database.
Experimentally validated
Total 19 [view]
Protein-Protein 19 [view]
Protein-DNA 0
Protein-RNA 0
DNA-DNA 0
RNA-RNA 0
DNA-RNA 0
Gene Ontology

Molecular Function
Accession GO Term
GO:0003824 catalytic activity
GO:0004655 porphobilinogen synthase activity
GO:0008270 zinc ion binding
GO:0032791 lead ion binding
GO:0042802 identical protein binding
GO:0046872 metal ion binding
Biological Process
GO:0006778 porphyrin-containing compound metabolic process
GO:0006779 porphyrin-containing compound biosynthetic process
GO:0006782 protoporphyrinogen IX biosynthetic process
GO:0006783 heme biosynthetic process
GO:0033014 tetrapyrrole biosynthetic process
GO:0044281 small molecule metabolic process
GO:0051260 protein homooligomerization
GO:0071353 cellular response to interleukin-4
Cellular Component
GO:0005634 nucleus
GO:0005829 cytosol
GO:0070062 extracellular vesicular exosome
Orthologs
Species
Mus musculus
Bos taurus
Gene ID
Gene Order
ENSMUSG00000028393
View Gene Order
ENSBTAG00000000251
Not yet available
Pathways
NETPATH
REACTOME
REACT_9465
Heme biosynthesis pathway
REACT_9431
Metabolism of porphyrins pathway
REACT_111217
Metabolism pathway
KEGG
hsa00860
Porphyrin and chlorophyll metabolism pathway
INOH
INOH website
Porphyrin metabolism pathway
PID NCI
Cross-References
SwissProt
TrEMBL
UniProt Splice Variant
Entrez Gene
UniGene Hs.1227
RefSeq NM_000031 XM_005251799
HUGO
OMIM
CCDS CCDS6794
HPRD 00504
IMGT
EMBL
GenPept
RNA Seq Atlas

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Breuer et al., InnateDB: systems biology of innate immunity and beyond - recent updates and continuing curation. Nucl. Acids Res. (2013) 41 (D1) 

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