FEATURES

FAMILY

DESCRIPTION

Also known as ALDH1_ELEED, ALDH1. Major component of the eye of elephant shrews, which in contrast to other mammals, possesses both a lens- and a non-lens class-1 aldehyde dehydrogenase 1. This eye-specific form is a structural protein of the lens and, in other part of the eye, serves as the major form of ALDH1. Can convert/oxidize retinaldehyde to retinoic acid. Homotetramer.

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enzyme classification

ALDH1

Aldehyde dehydrogenase, cytosolic 1

Mutations

Mutation(s) distribution

Mutations table

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