Application:IF
Reactivity: Mouse (predicted: Human,Rat,Rabbit,Sheep)
Mecr is a 373 amino acid mitochondrial protein that may play a role in fatty acid synthesis. Existing as two alternatively spliced isoforms, Mecr is highly expressed in cardiac and skeletal muscle, with lower levels found in pancreas, kidney, placenta and liver. Mecr forms a homodimer and belongs to the zinc-containing alcohol dehydrogenase family and quinone oxidoreductase subfamily. Mecr reduces trans-2-enoyl-CoA to acyl-CoA in an NADPH-dependent manner and is encoded by a gene that maps to human chromosome 1p35.3. Human chromosome 1 spans 260 million base pairs, contains over 3,000 genes, comprises nearly 8% of the human genome and houses a large number of disease-associated genes, including those that are involved in familial adenomatous polyposis, Stickler syndrome, Parkinson’s disease, Gaucher disease, schizophrenia and Usher syndrome.