ALAS1

ALAS1
Identifiers
Aliases ALAS1, ALAS, ALAS3, ALASH, MIG4, ALAS-H, 5'-aminolevulinate synthase 1
External IDs MGI: 87989 HomoloGene: 55478 GeneCards: ALAS1
Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez

211

11655

Ensembl

ENSG00000023330

ENSMUSG00000032786

UniProt

P13196

Q8VC19

RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_000688
NM_001304443
NM_001304444
NM_199166

NM_001291835
NM_020559

RefSeq (protein)

NP_000679.1
NP_001291372.1
NP_001291373.1
NP_954635.1

NP_001278764.1
NP_065584.2

Location (UCSC) Chr 3: 52.2 – 52.21 Mb Chr 9: 106.23 – 106.25 Mb
PubMed search [1] [2]
Wikidata
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Delta-aminolevulinate synthase 1 also known as ALAS1 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ALAS1 gene.[3][4] ALAS1 is an aminolevulinic acid synthase.

Delta-aminolevulinate synthase catalyzes the condensation of glycine with succinyl-CoA to form delta-aminolevulinic acid. This nuclear-encoded mitochondrial enzyme is the first and rate-limiting enzyme in the mammalian heme biosynthetic pathway. There are 2 tissue-specific isozymes: a housekeeping enzyme encoded by the ALAS1 gene and an erythroid tissue-specific enzyme encoded by ALAS2.[4]

References

  1. "Human PubMed Reference:".
  2. "Mouse PubMed Reference:".
  3. Bishop DF, Henderson AS, Astrin KH (June 1990). "Human delta-aminolevulinate synthase: assignment of the housekeeping gene to 3p21 and the erythroid-specific gene to the X chromosome". Genomics. 7 (2): 207–14. doi:10.1016/0888-7543(90)90542-3. PMID 2347585.
  4. 1 2 "Entrez Gene: Delta-aminolevulinate synthase 1".

Further reading

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