UGT1A4

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UDP glucuronosyltransferase 1 family, polypeptide A4

Identifiers

UGT1A4; UDPGT; HUG-BR2; UGT1*4; UGT1D

External IDs

OMIM: 606429 MGI: 3032634 HomoloGene: 88621

Gene ontology
Molecular Function:	• glucuronosyltransferase activity
Cellular Component:	• endoplasmic reticulum • microsome • membrane • integral to membrane
Biological Process:	• metabolic process

Orthologs

Human

Mouse

Entrez

54657

394433

Refseq

NM_007120 (mRNA)
NP_009051 (protein)

NM_201643 (mRNA)
NP_964005 (protein)

Pubmed search

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UDP glucuronosyltransferase 1 family, polypeptide A4, also known as UGT1A4, is a human gene.^[1]

This gene encodes a UDP-glucuronosyltransferase, an enzyme of the glucuronidation pathway that transforms small lipophilic molecules, such as steroids, bilirubin, hormones, and drugs, into water-soluble, excretable metabolites. This gene is part of a complex locus that encodes several UDP-glucuronosyltransferases. The locus includes thirteen unique alternate first exons followed by four common exons. Four of the alternate first exons are considered pseudogenes. Each of the remaining nine 5' exons may be spliced to the four common exons, resulting in nine proteins with different N-termini and identical C-termini. Each first exon encodes the substrate binding site, and is regulated by its own promoter. This enzyme has some glucuronidase activity towards bilirubin, although is is more active on amines, steroids, and sapogenins.^[1]

[edit] References

^ ^a ^b Entrez Gene: UGT1A4 UDP glucuronosyltransferase 1 family, polypeptide A4.

[edit] Further reading

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Zhang JY, Zhan J, Cook CS, et al. (2003). "Involvement of human UGT2B7 and 2B15 in rofecoxib metabolism.". Drug Metab. Dispos. 31 (5): 652–8. PMID 12695355.
Kuehl GE, Murphy SE (2004). "N-glucuronidation of nicotine and cotinine by human liver microsomes and heterologously expressed UDP-glucuronosyltransferases.". Drug Metab. Dispos. 31 (11): 1361–8. doi:10.1124/dmd.31.11.1361. PMID 14570768.