ADH6

Also known as ADH-5, alcohol dehydrogenase 6 (class V)

Alcohol dehydrogenase 6 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the ADH6 gene.

Gene data

ADH6

Name: alcohol dehydrogenase 6 (class V)
Type: protein-coding
Aliases: ADH-5

This gene encodes class V alcohol dehydrogenase, which is a member of the alcohol dehydrogenase family. Members of this family metabolize a wide variety of substrates, including ethanol, retinol, other aliphatic alcohols, hydroxysteroids, and lipid peroxidation products. This gene is expressed in the stomach as well as in the liver, and it contains a glucocorticoid response element upstream of its 5' UTR, which is a steroid hormone receptor binding site. Alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been found for this gene. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008].

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alcohol dehydrogenase 6 (class V)

Symbol: ADH6
Biotype: Protein coding
Organism: Homo sapiens
Location: 4:99,202,424-99,219,537
Strand: Reverse (−)
Assembly: GRCh38

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HomoloGene ID: 68077
exact match: identifiers.org/ncbigene/130
cytogenetic location: 4q23
genomic end: 100140694
genomic start: 100123795
Commons category: Cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase, ADH6

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Alcohol dehydrogenase 6 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the ADH6 gene.

This gene encodes class V alcohol dehydrogenase, which is a member of the alcohol dehydrogenase family. Members of this family metabolize a wide variety of substrates, including ethanol, retinol, other aliphatic alcohols, hydroxysteroids, and lipid peroxidation products. This gene is expressed in the stomach as well as in the liver, and it contains a glucocorticoid response element upstream of its 5' UTR, which is a steroid hormone receptor binding site. The deduced amino acid sequence of the open reading frame of this gene shows about 60% positional identity with other known alcohol dehydrogenases. This gene may have a distinct physiologic function.