Tissue Specificity | Expressed exclusively in the small intestine. |
Function | Cytidine deaminase catalyzing the cytidine to uridine postranscriptional editing of a variety of mRNAs. Form complexes with cofactors that confer differential editing activity and selectivity. Responsible for the postranscriptional editing of a CAA codon for Gln to a UAA codon for stop in the apolipoprotein B mRNA. Also involved in CGA (Arg) to UGA (Stop) editing in the NF1 mRNA. May also play a role in the epigenetic regulation of gene expression by participating in DNA demethylation. |
Protein Name | C->U-Editing Enzyme Apobec-1Apolipoprotein B Mrna-Editing Enzyme Catalytic Subunit 1Apo1Apobec-1Apolipoprotein B Mrna-Editing Enzyme 1HeprMrna(Cytosine(6666 Deaminase 1 |
Database Links | Reactome: R-HSA-72200Reactome: R-HSA-75094 |
Cellular Localisation | CytoplasmNucleus |
Alternative Antibody Names | Anti-C->U-Editing Enzyme Apobec-1 antibodyAnti-Apolipoprotein B Mrna-Editing Enzyme Catalytic Subunit 1 antibodyAnti-Apo1 antibodyAnti-Apobec-1 antibodyAnti-Apolipoprotein B Mrna-Editing Enzyme 1 antibodyAnti-Hepr antibodyAnti-Mrna(Cytosine(6666 Deaminase 1 antibodyAnti-APOBEC1 antibody |
Information sourced from Uniprot.org