AKR7A2

Aldo-keto reductase family 7, member A2
PDB rendering based on 2bp1.
Available structures PDB Ortholog search: PDBe, RCSB List of PDB id codes 2BP1​
Identifiers
Symbols	AKR7A2 ; AFAR; AFAR1; AFB1-AR1; AKR7
External IDs	OMIM: 603418 MGI: 107796 HomoloGene: 2737 GeneCards: AKR7A2 Gene
EC number	1.1.1.n11
Gene ontology Molecular function • alditol:NADP+ 1-oxidoreductase activity • electron carrier activity • phenanthrene-9,10-epoxide hydrolase activity Cellular component • mitochondrion • Golgi apparatus • cytosol • extracellular exosome Biological process • carbohydrate metabolic process • cellular aldehyde metabolic process • xenobiotic metabolic process • small molecule metabolic process • daunorubicin metabolic process • doxorubicin metabolic process • oxidation-reduction process Sources: Amigo / QuickGO
RNA expression pattern
More reference expression data
Orthologs
Species	Human	Mouse
Entrez	8574	110198
Ensembl	ENSG00000053371	ENSMUSG00000028743
UniProt	O43488	Q8CG76
RefSeq (mRNA)	NM_003689	NM_025337
RefSeq (protein)	NP_003680	NP_079613
Location (UCSC)	Chr 1: 19.3 – 19.31 Mb	Chr 4: 139.31 – 139.32 Mb
PubMed search

Aflatoxin B1 aldehyde reductase member 2 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the AKR7A2 gene.^[1][2]

Function

Aldo-keto reductases, such as AKR7A2, are involved in the detoxification of aldehydes and ketones.[supplied by OMIM]^[2]

References

1. Ireland LS, Harrison DJ, Neal GE, Hayes JD (Aug 1998). "Molecular cloning, expression and catalytic activity of a human AKR7 member of the aldo-keto reductase superfamily: evidence that the major 2-carboxybenzaldehyde reductase from human liver is a homologue of rat aflatoxin B1-aldehyde reductase". Biochem J 332 (1): 21–34. PMC 1219447. PMID 9576847.
2. "Entrez Gene: AKR7A2 aldo-keto reductase family 7, member A2 (aflatoxin aldehyde reductase)".

Further reading

• Maruyama K, Sugano S (1994). "Oligo-capping: a simple method to replace the cap structure of eukaryotic mRNAs with oligoribonucleotides.". Gene 138 (1–2): 171–4. doi:10.1016/0378-1119(94)90802-8. PMID 8125298.
• Suzuki Y, Yoshitomo-Nakagawa K, Maruyama K; et al. (1997). "Construction and characterization of a full length-enriched and a 5'-end-enriched cDNA library". Gene 200 (1–2): 149–56. doi:10.1016/S0378-1119(97)00411-3. PMID 9373149.
• Praml C, Savelyeva L, Perri P, Schwab M (1998). "Cloning of the human aflatoxin B1-aldehyde reductase gene at 1p35-1p36.1 in a region frequently altered in human tumor cells". Cancer Res. 58 (22): 5014–8. PMID 9823300.
• Kelly VP, Sherratt PJ, Crouch DH, Hayes JD (2002). "Novel homodimeric and heterodimeric rat gamma-hydroxybutyrate synthases that associate with the Golgi apparatus define a distinct subclass of aldo-keto reductase 7 family proteins". Biochem. J. 366 (Pt 3): 847–61. doi:10.1042/BJ20020342. PMC 1222835. PMID 12071861.
• Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH; et al. (2003). "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.
• Praml C, Savelyeva L, Schwab M (2003). "Aflatoxin B1 aldehyde reductase (AFAR) genes cluster at 1p35-1p36.1 in a region frequently altered in human tumour cells". Oncogene 22 (30): 4765–73. doi:10.1038/sj.onc.1206684. PMID 12879023.
• Gerhard DS, Wagner L, Feingold EA; et al. (2004). "The status, quality, and expansion of the NIH full-length cDNA project: the Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC)". Genome Res. 14 (10B): 2121–7. doi:10.1101/gr.2596504. PMC 528928. PMID 15489334.
• Rual JF, Venkatesan K, Hao T; et al. (2005). "Towards a proteome-scale map of the human protein-protein interaction network". Nature 437 (7062): 1173–8. doi:10.1038/nature04209. PMID 16189514.
• Jordanova A, Irobi J, Thomas FP; et al. (2006). "Disrupted function and axonal distribution of mutant tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase in dominant intermediate Charcot-Marie-Tooth neuropathy". Nat. Genet. 38 (2): 197–202. doi:10.1038/ng1727. PMID 16429158.
• Gregory SG, Barlow KF, McLay KE; et al. (2006). "The DNA sequence and biological annotation of human chromosome 1". Nature 441 (7091): 315–21. doi:10.1038/nature04727. PMID 16710414.
• Lyon RC, Johnston SM, Watson DG; et al. (2007). "Synthesis and catabolism of gamma-hydroxybutyrate in SH-SY5Y human neuroblastoma cells: role of the aldo-keto reductase AKR7A2". J. Biol. Chem. 282 (36): 25986–92. doi:10.1074/jbc.M702465200. PMID 17591773.