Carbonic anhydrase III, muscle specific

Carbonic anhydrase III, muscle specific

PDB rendering based on 1flj.
Identifiers
Symbols CA3; CAIII; Car3; FLJ36434
External IDs OMIM114750 MGI88270 HomoloGene31298 GeneCards: CA3 Gene
EC number 4.2.1.1
RNA expression pattern
More reference expression data
Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez 761 12350
Ensembl ENSG00000164879 ENSMUSG00000027559
UniProt P07451 P16015
RefSeq (mRNA) NM_005181.3 NM_007606.3
RefSeq (protein) NP_005172.1 NP_031632.2
Location (UCSC) Chr 8:
86.29 – 86.36 Mb
Chr 3:
14.86 – 14.87 Mb
PubMed search [1] [2]

Carbonic anhydrase 3 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the CA3 gene.[1]

Carbonic anhydrase III (CAIII) is a member of a multigene family (at least six separate genes are known) that encode carbonic anhydrase isozymes. These carbonic anhydrases are a class of metalloenzymes that catalyze the reversible hydration of carbon dioxide and are differentially expressed in a number of cell types. The expression of the CA3 gene is strictly tissue-specific and present at high levels in skeletal muscle and much lower levels in cardiac and smooth muscle. A proportion of carriers of Duchenne muscle dystrophy have a higher CA3 level than normal. The gene spans 10.3 kb and contains seven exons and six introns.[2]

References

  1. ^ Shima K, Tashiro K, Hibi N, Tsukada Y, Hirai H (Jun 1983). "Carbonic anhydrase-III immunohistochemical localization in human skeletal muscle". Acta Neuropathol 59 (3): 237–9. doi:10.1007/BF00703210. PMID 6221502. 
  2. ^ "Entrez Gene: CA3 carbonic anhydrase III, muscle specific". http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=gene&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=761. 

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