ALDH1L2

Aldehyde dehydrogenase 1 family, member L2
Identifiers
Symbols ALDH1L2 ; mtFDH
External IDs OMIM: 613584 MGI: 2444680 HomoloGene: 51942 GeneCards: ALDH1L2 Gene
EC number 1.5.1.6
Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez 160428 216188
Ensembl ENSG00000136010 ENSMUSG00000020256
UniProt Q3SY69 Q8K009
RefSeq (mRNA) NM_001034173 NM_153543
RefSeq (protein) NP_001029345 NP_705771
Location (UCSC) Chr 12:
105.02 – 105.08 Mb
Chr 10:
83.49 – 83.53 Mb
PubMed search

Aldehyde dehydrogenase 1 family, member L2 also known as ALDH1L2 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the ALDH1L2 gene.[1][2] ALDH1L2 is the mitochondrial isoform of a similar enzyme, ALDH1L1, which converts 10-formyltetrahydrofolate to tetrahydrofolate and carbon dioxide.[3][4]

References

  1. Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH; et al. (December 2002). "Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99 (26): 16899–903. doi:10.1073/pnas.242603899. PMC 139241. PMID 12477932.
  2. Ota T, Suzuki Y, Nishikawa T; et al. (January 2004). "Complete sequencing and characterization of 21,243 full-length human cDNAs". Nat. Genet. 36 (1): 40–5. doi:10.1038/ng1285. PMID 14702039.
  3. Krupenko NI, Dubard ME, Strickland KC, Moxley KM, Oleinik NV, Krupenko SA. "ALDH1L2 is the mitochondrial homolog of 10-formyltetrahydrofolate dehydrogenase." J Biol Chem. 2010 Jul 23;285(30):23056-63.
  4. Strickland KC, Krupenko NI, Dubard ME, Hu CJ, Tsybovsky Y, Krupenko SA. "Enzymatic properties of ALDH1L2, a mitochondrial 10-formyltetrahdyrofolate dehydrogenase." Chem Biol Interact. 2011 May 30;191(1-3):129-36.

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