Reactivities: | Human |
Presku: | AAP64136 |
Size: | 100ug |
Weight: | 63kDa |
Gene: | 53630 |
Format: | Lyophilized powder |
Target: | Vitamin A metabolism is important for vital processes such as vision, embryonic development, cell differentiation, and membrane and skin protection. The protein encoded by this gene is a key enzyme in beta-carotene metabolism to vitamin A. It catalyzes the oxidative cleavage of beta,beta-carotene into two retinal molecules. |
Alternative names: | BCDO; BCDO1; BCMO; BCO; BCO1; FLJ10730 |