Biology:GBA3

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Short description: Protein-coding gene in the species Homo sapiens


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Cytosolic beta-glucosidase, also known as cytosolic beta-glucosidase-like protein 1, is a beta-glucosidase (EC 3.2.1.21) enzyme that in humans is encoded by the GBA3 gene.[1][2]

Function

Cytosolic beta-glucosidase is a predominantly liver enzyme that efficiently hydrolyzes beta-D-glucoside and beta-D-galactoside, but not any known physiologic beta-glycoside, suggesting that it may be involved in detoxification of plant glycosides.[2] GBA3 also has significant neutral glycosylceramidase activity (EC 3.2.1.62), suggesting that it may be involved in a non-lysosomal catabolic pathway of glucosylceramide metabolism.[3]

See also

References

  1. "Entrez Gene: glucosidase". https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=gene&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=57733. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 "Cloning and characterization of human liver cytosolic beta-glycosidase". Biochem. J. 356 (Pt 3): 907–10. June 2001. doi:10.1042/0264-6021:3560907. PMID 11389701. 
  3. "Klotho-related protein is a novel cytosolic neutral beta-glycosylceramidase". J. Biol. Chem. 282 (42): 30889–900. October 2007. doi:10.1074/jbc.M700832200. PMID 17595169. 

Further reading

External links

  • PDBe-KB provides an overview of all the structure information available in the PDB for Human Cytosolic beta-glucosidase