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Homo sapiens Gene: ALDH8A1
Summary
InnateDB Gene IDBG-96808.6
Last Modified 2014-10-13 [Report errors or provide feedback]
Gene Symbol ALDH8A1
Gene Name aldehyde dehydrogenase 8 family, member A1
Synonyms
Species Homo sapiens
Ensembl Gene ENSG00000118514
Encoded Proteins
IDBP-96810
aldehyde dehydrogenase 8 family, member A1
IDBP-96812
aldehyde dehydrogenase 8 family, member A1
IDBP-96814
aldehyde dehydrogenase 8 family, member A1
IDBP-96816
aldehyde dehydrogenase 8 family, member A1
IDBP-591355
aldehyde dehydrogenase 8 family, member A1
IDBP-601529
aldehyde dehydrogenase 8 family, member A1
Protein Structure
Useful resources Stemformatics EHFPI ImmGen
Entrez 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, Jul 2010]
Gene Information
Type Protein coding
Genomic Location Chromosome 6:134917390-134950122
Strand Reverse strand
Band q23.3
Transcripts
ENST00000265605 ENSP00000265605
ENST00000367847 ENSP00000356821
ENST00000367845 ENSP00000356819
ENST00000349305 ENSP00000325473
ENST00000460753 ENSP00000437161
ENST00000534012 ENSP00000435297
Interactions
Number of Interactions This gene and/or its encoded proteins are associated with 3 experimentally validated interaction(s) in this database.
Experimentally validated
Total 3 [view]
Protein-Protein 1 [view]
Protein-DNA 2 [view]
Protein-RNA 0
DNA-DNA 0
RNA-RNA 0
DNA-RNA 0
Gene Ontology

Molecular Function
Accession GO Term
GO:0001758 retinal dehydrogenase activity
GO:0016491 oxidoreductase activity
GO:0016620 oxidoreductase activity, acting on the aldehyde or oxo group of donors, NAD or NADP as acceptor
Biological Process
GO:0008152 metabolic process
GO:0042573 retinoic acid metabolic process
GO:0042574 retinal metabolic process
GO:0042904 9-cis-retinoic acid biosynthetic process
GO:0055114 oxidation-reduction process
Cellular Component
GO:0005622 intracellular
GO:0005737 cytoplasm
GO:0070062 extracellular vesicular exosome
Orthologs
Species
Mus musculus
Bos taurus
Gene ID
Gene Order
ENSMUSG00000037542
View Gene Order
ENSBTAG00000007975
Not yet available
Cross-References
SwissProt
TrEMBL
UniProt Splice Variant
Entrez Gene
UniGene Hs.486520
RefSeq NM_001193480 NM_022568 NM_170771
HUGO
OMIM
CCDS CCDS5171 CCDS5172 CCDS55057
HPRD 06974
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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