APEH (gene)

Acylaminoacyl-peptide hydrolase
Identifiers
Symbols APEH ; AARE; ACPH; APH; D3F15S2; D3S48E; DNF15S2; OPH
External IDs OMIM: 102645 MGI: 88041 HomoloGene: 1240 ChEMBL: 1741174 GeneCards: APEH Gene
EC number 3.4.19.1
RNA expression pattern
More reference expression data
Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez 327 235606
Ensembl ENSG00000164062 ENSMUSG00000032590
UniProt P13798 Q8R146
RefSeq (mRNA) NM_001640 NM_146226
RefSeq (protein) NP_001631 NP_666338
Location (UCSC) Chr 3:
49.67 – 49.68 Mb
Chr 9:
108.09 – 108.09 Mb
PubMed search

Acylamino-acid-releasing enzyme is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the APEH gene.[1][2]

This gene encodes the enzyme acylpeptide hydrolase, which catalyzes the hydrolysis of the terminal acetylated amino acid preferentially from small acetylated peptides. The acetyl amino acid formed by this hydrolase is further processed to acetate and a free amino acid by an aminoacylase. This gene is located within the same region of chromosome 3 (3p21) as the aminoacylase gene, and deletions at this locus are also associated with a decrease in aminoacylase activity. The acylpeptide hydrolase is a homotetrameric protein of 300 kDa with each subunit consisting of 732 amino acid residues. It can play an important role in destroying oxidatively-damaged proteins in living cells. Deletions of this gene locus are found in various types of carcinomas, including small-cell lung carcinoma and renal cell carcinoma.[2]

References

  1. Erlandsson R, Bergerheim US, Boldog F, Marcsek Z, Kunimi K, Lin BY, Ingvarsson S, Castresana JS, Lee WH (Oct 1990). "A gene near the D3F15S2 site on 3p is expressed in normal human kidney but not or only at a severely reduced level in 11 of 15 primary renal cell carcinomas (RCC)". Oncogene 5 (8): 1207–11. PMID 2392324.
  2. 1 2 "Entrez Gene: APEH N-acylaminoacyl-peptide hydrolase".

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