Human Gene ALDH3B2 (ENST00000530069.6) from GENCODE V49
  Description: aldehyde dehydrogenase 3 family member B2, transcript variant 6 (from RefSeq NM_001393401.1)
Gencode Transcript: ENST00000530069.6
Gencode Gene: ENSG00000132746.16
Transcript (Including UTRs)
   Position: hg38 chr11:67,662,160-67,681,224 Size: 19,065 Total Exon Count: 10 Strand: -
Coding Region
   Position: hg38 chr11:67,663,215-67,666,935 Size: 3,721 Coding Exon Count: 8 

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Data last updated at UCSC: 2025-09-17 13:57:07

-  Sequence and Links to Tools and Databases
 
Genomic Sequence (chr11:67,662,160-67,681,224)mRNA (may differ from genome)Protein (385 aa)
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-  Comments and Description Text from UniProtKB
  ID: AL3B2_HUMAN
DESCRIPTION: RecName: Full=Aldehyde dehydrogenase family 3 member B2; EC=1.2.1.5; AltName: Full=Aldehyde dehydrogenase 8;
CATALYTIC ACTIVITY: An aldehyde + NAD(P)(+) + H(2)O = a carboxylate + NAD(P)H.
PATHWAY: Alcohol metabolism; ethanol degradation; acetate from ethanol: step 2/2.
TISSUE SPECIFICITY: Salivary gland.
SIMILARITY: Belongs to the aldehyde dehydrogenase family.

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-  Comparative Toxicogenomics Database (CTD)
  The following chemicals interact with this gene

-  RNA-Seq Expression Data from GTEx (53 Tissues, 570 Donors)
  Highest median expression: 75.53 RPKM in Esophagus - Mucosa
Total median expression: 254.63 RPKM



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+  Microarray Expression Data
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-  mRNA Secondary Structure of 3' and 5' UTRs
 
RegionFold EnergyBasesEnergy/Base
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5' UTR -116.00293-0.396 Picture PostScript Text
3' UTR -343.701055-0.326 Picture PostScript Text

The RNAfold program from the Vienna RNA Package is used to perform the secondary structure predictions and folding calculations. The estimated folding energy is in kcal/mol. The more negative the energy, the more secondary structure the RNA is likely to have.

-  Protein Domain and Structure Information
  InterPro Domains: Graphical view of domain structure
IPR016161 - Ald_DH/histidinol_DH
IPR016163 - Ald_DH_C
IPR016160 - Ald_DH_CS
IPR016162 - Ald_DH_N
IPR015590 - Aldehyde_DH_dom
IPR012394 - Aldehyde_DH_NAD(P)

Pfam Domains:
PF00171 - Aldehyde dehydrogenase family

ModBase Predicted Comparative 3D Structure on P48448
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-  Orthologous Genes in Other Species
  Orthologies between human, mouse, and rat are computed by taking the best BLASTP hit, and filtering out non-syntenic hits. For more distant species reciprocal-best BLASTP hits are used. Note that the absence of an ortholog in the table below may reflect incomplete annotations in the other species rather than a true absence of the orthologous gene.
MouseRatZebrafishD. melanogasterC. elegansS. cerevisiae
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-  Gene Ontology (GO) Annotations with Structured Vocabulary
  Molecular Function:
GO:0004028 3-chloroallyl aldehyde dehydrogenase activity
GO:0004030 aldehyde dehydrogenase [NAD(P)+] activity
GO:0016491 oxidoreductase activity
GO:0016620 oxidoreductase activity, acting on the aldehyde or oxo group of donors, NAD or NADP as acceptor

Biological Process:
GO:0006066 alcohol metabolic process
GO:0006068 ethanol catabolic process
GO:0006629 lipid metabolic process
GO:0008152 metabolic process
GO:0030148 sphingolipid biosynthetic process
GO:0055114 oxidation-reduction process

Cellular Component:
GO:0005811 lipid particle


-  Descriptions from all associated GenBank mRNAs
  BC007685 - Homo sapiens aldehyde dehydrogenase 3 family, member B2, mRNA (cDNA clone MGC:3627 IMAGE:3636326), complete cds.
AK092464 - Homo sapiens cDNA FLJ35145 fis, clone PLACE6009853, highly similar to ALDEHYDE DEHYDROGENASE 8 (EC 1.2.1.5).
U37519 - Human aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH8) mRNA, complete cds.
JD248798 - Sequence 229822 from Patent EP1572962.
JD133330 - Sequence 114354 from Patent EP1572962.
JD369471 - Sequence 350495 from Patent EP1572962.
JD101012 - Sequence 82036 from Patent EP1572962.
JD473542 - Sequence 454566 from Patent EP1572962.
JD484371 - Sequence 465395 from Patent EP1572962.
JD521387 - Sequence 502411 from Patent EP1572962.
JD459967 - Sequence 440991 from Patent EP1572962.
JD451231 - Sequence 432255 from Patent EP1572962.
JD292830 - Sequence 273854 from Patent EP1572962.
JD055717 - Sequence 36741 from Patent EP1572962.
JD392272 - Sequence 373296 from Patent EP1572962.
JD060072 - Sequence 41096 from Patent EP1572962.
JD380379 - Sequence 361403 from Patent EP1572962.
JD122530 - Sequence 103554 from Patent EP1572962.
JD523916 - Sequence 504940 from Patent EP1572962.
JD098635 - Sequence 79659 from Patent EP1572962.
JD234609 - Sequence 215633 from Patent EP1572962.
JD131555 - Sequence 112579 from Patent EP1572962.
AK299956 - Homo sapiens cDNA FLJ57426 complete cds, highly similar to Aldehyde dehydrogenase 3B2 (EC 1.2.1.5).
JD491877 - Sequence 472901 from Patent EP1572962.
JD444643 - Sequence 425667 from Patent EP1572962.
JD478826 - Sequence 459850 from Patent EP1572962.
JD555483 - Sequence 536507 from Patent EP1572962.
JD306924 - Sequence 287948 from Patent EP1572962.
JD103563 - Sequence 84587 from Patent EP1572962.
KJ896409 - Synthetic construct Homo sapiens clone ccsbBroadEn_05803 ALDH3B2 gene, encodes complete protein.
BT006810 - Homo sapiens aldehyde dehydrogenase 3 family, member B2 mRNA, complete cds.
DQ890541 - Synthetic construct clone IMAGE:100003171; FLH163882.01X; RZPDo839A05162D aldehyde dehydrogenase 3 family, member B2 (ALDH3B2) gene, encodes complete protein.
DQ893702 - Synthetic construct Homo sapiens clone IMAGE:100008162; FLH163878.01L; RZPDo839A05161D aldehyde dehydrogenase 3 family, member B2 (ALDH3B2) gene, encodes complete protein.
CU675759 - Synthetic construct Homo sapiens gateway clone IMAGE:100019188 5' read ALDH3B2 mRNA.
AK309277 - Homo sapiens cDNA, FLJ99318.
JD260352 - Sequence 241376 from Patent EP1572962.

-  Biochemical and Signaling Pathways
  KEGG - Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes
hsa00010 - Glycolysis / Gluconeogenesis
hsa00340 - Histidine metabolism
hsa00350 - Tyrosine metabolism
hsa00360 - Phenylalanine metabolism
hsa00980 - Metabolism of xenobiotics by cytochrome P450
hsa00982 - Drug metabolism - cytochrome P450
hsa01100 - Metabolic pathways

Reactome (by CSHL, EBI, and GO)

Protein P48448 (Reactome details) participates in the following event(s):

R-HSA-6808464 ALDH3B2 oxidises HXAL to PALM
R-HSA-1660661 Sphingolipid de novo biosynthesis
R-HSA-428157 Sphingolipid metabolism
R-HSA-556833 Metabolism of lipids
R-HSA-1430728 Metabolism

-  Other Names for This Gene
  Alternate Gene Symbols: AL3B2_HUMAN, ALDH8, ENST00000530069.1, ENST00000530069.2, ENST00000530069.3, ENST00000530069.4, ENST00000530069.5, NM_001393401, P48448, Q53Y98, Q8NAL5, Q96IB2, uc001oms.1, uc001oms.2, uc001oms.3, uc001oms.4, uc001oms.5
UCSC ID: ENST00000530069.6
RefSeq Accession: NM_001031615.3
Protein: P48448 (aka AL3B2_HUMAN or DHA8_HUMAN)
CCDS: CCDS31622.1

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