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ADH6
Identifiers
Aliases	ADH6, ADH-5, alcohol dehydrogenase 6 (class V)
External IDs	OMIM: 103735; HomoloGene: 68077; GeneCards: ADH6; OMA:ADH6 - orthologs
Enzyme activity EC # BRENDA ExPASy KEGG MetaCyc 1.1.1.1 ↗ ↗ ↗ ↗
Gene location (Human) Chr. Chromosome 4 (human) Band 4q23 Start 99,202,638 bp End 99,219,537 bp
RNA expression pattern Bgee Human Mouse (ortholog) Top expressed in right lobe of liver jejunal mucosa kidney tubule duodenum pancreatic ductal cell right uterine tube glomerulus metanephric glomerulus human kidney mucosa of transverse colon n/a More reference expression data BioGPS More reference expression data
Gene ontology Molecular function oxidoreductase activity zinc ion binding alcohol dehydrogenase (NAD+) activity metal ion binding alcohol dehydrogenase activity, zinc-dependent NAD-retinol dehydrogenase activity Cellular component cytoplasm cytosol extracellular exosome Biological process response to ethanol ethanol oxidation retinol metabolic process retinoic acid metabolic process Sources:Amigo / QuickGO
Orthologs Species Human Mouse Entrez 130 n/a Ensembl ENSG00000172955 n/a UniProt P28332 n/a RefSeq (mRNA) NM_000672 NM_001102470 n/a RefSeq (protein) NP_000663 NP_001095940 n/a Location (UCSC) Chr 4: 99.2 – 99.22 Mb n/a PubMed search n/a
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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.

Further reading

• Lieber CS (1990). "Interaction of ethanol with drugs, hepatotoxic agents, carcinogens and vitamins". Alcohol Alcohol. 25 (2–3): 157–76. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.alcalc.a044990. PMID 2198032.
• Yoshida A (1995). "Genetic polymorphisms of alcohol metabolizing enzymes related to alcohol sensitivity and alcoholic diseases". Alcohol Alcohol. 29 (6): 693–6. PMID 7695785.
• Chen CS, Yoshida A (1992). "Enzymatic properties of the protein encoded by newly cloned human alcohol dehydrogenase ADH6 gene". Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 181 (2): 743–7. doi:10.1016/0006-291X(91)91253-9. PMID 1755855.
• Zhi X, Chan EM, Edenberg HJ (2000). "Tissue-specific regulatory elements in the human alcohol dehydrogenase 6 gene". DNA Cell Biol. 19 (8): 487–97. doi:10.1089/10445490050128412. PMID 10975466.
• Strömberg P, Höög JO (2001). "Human class V alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH5): A complex transcription unit generates C-terminal multiplicity". Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 278 (3): 544–9. doi:10.1006/bbrc.2000.3837. PMID 11095947.
• Osier MV, Pakstis AJ, Soodyall H, et al. (2002). "A global perspective on genetic variation at the ADH genes reveals unusual patterns of linkage disequilibrium and diversity". Am. J. Hum. Genet. 71 (1): 84–99. doi:10.1086/341290. PMC 384995. PMID 12050823.
• Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH, et al. (2003). "Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99 (26): 16899–903. Bibcode:2002PNAS...9916899M. doi:10.1073/pnas.242603899. PMC 139241. PMID 12477932.
• Ota T, Suzuki Y, Nishikawa T, et al. (2004). "Complete sequencing and characterization of 21,243 full-length human cDNAs". Nat. Genet. 36 (1): 40–5. doi:10.1038/ng1285. PMID 14702039.

External links

• Human ADH6 genome location and ADH6 gene details page in the UCSC Genome Browser.