RDH8

Retinol dehydrogenase 8 (all-trans)
Identifiers
Symbols RDH8; PRRDH; SDR28C2
External IDs OMIM608575 MGI2685028 HomoloGene41062 GeneCards: RDH8 Gene
EC number 1.1.1.300
RNA expression pattern
More reference expression data
Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez 50700 235033
Ensembl ENSG00000080511 ENSMUSG00000053773
UniProt Q9NYR8 n/a
RefSeq (mRNA) NM_015725 NM_001030290.1
RefSeq (protein) NP_056540 NP_001025461.1
Location (UCSC) Chr 19:
10.12 – 10.13 Mb
Chr 9:
20.62 – 20.63 Mb
PubMed search [1] [2]

Retinol dehydrogenase 8 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the RDH8 gene.[1][2][3]

All-trans-retinol dehydrogenase (RDH8) is a visual cycle enzyme that reduces all-trans-retinal to all-trans-retinol in the presence of NADPH (Rattner et al., 2000). It is a member of the short chain dehydrogenase/reductase family and is located in the outer segments of photoreceptors; hence it is also known as photoreceptor retinol dehydrogenase. It is important in the visual cycle by beginning the rhodopsin regeneration pathway by reducing all-trans-retinal, the product of bleached and hydrolysed rhodopsin (Rando, 2001). This is a rate-limiting step in the visual cycle (Saari et al., 1998).[supplied by OMIM][3]

References

  1. ^ Rattner A, Smallwood PM, Nathans J (May 2000). "Identification and characterization of all-trans-retinol dehydrogenase from photoreceptor outer segments, the visual cycle enzyme that reduces all-trans-retinal to all-trans-retinol". J Biol Chem 275 (15): 11034–11043. doi:10.1074/jbc.275.15.11034. PMID 10753906. 
  2. ^ Persson B, Kallberg Y, Bray JE, Bruford E, Dellaporta SL, Favia AD, Duarte RG, Jornvall H, Kavanagh KL, Kedishvili N, Kisiela M, Maser E, Mindnich R, Orchard S, Penning TM, Thornton JM, Adamski J, Oppermann U (Feb 2009). "The SDR (short-chain dehydrogenase/reductase and related enzymes) nomenclature initiative". Chem Biol Interact 178 (1–3): 94–98. doi:10.1016/j.cbi.2008.10.040. PMC 2896744. PMID 19027726. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=2896744. 
  3. ^ a b "Entrez Gene: RDH8 retinol dehydrogenase 8 (all-trans)". http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=gene&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=50700. 

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