TISSUES - ALOX12B

ALOX12B tissues

ALOX12B [ENSP00000497784]

Arachidonate 12-lipoxygenase, 12R-type; Catalyzes the regio and stereo-specific incorporation of a single molecule of dioxygen into free and esterified polyunsaturated fatty acids generating lipid hydroperoxides that can be further reduced to the corresponding hydroxy species (PubMed:9837935, PubMed:9618483, PubMed:21558561). In the skin, acts upstream of ALOXE3 on the lineolate moiety of esterified omega-hydroxyacyl-sphingosine (EOS) ceramides to produce an epoxy-ketone derivative, a crucial step in the conjugation of omega-hydroxyceramide to membrane proteins . Therefore plays a crucial role in the synthesis of corneocytes lipid envelope and the establishment of the skin barrier to water loss . May also play a role in the regulation of the expression of airway mucins . ; Belongs to the lipoxygenase family.

Synonyms: ALOX12B, ALOX12Bp, hALOX12B, A0A3B3IRK2, O75342 ...

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Each tissue–gene association is based on a text-mining score, which is proportional to 1) the absolute number of comentionings and 2) the ratio of observed to expected comentionings (i.e. the enrichment). These scores are normalized to z-scores by comparing them to a random background. This is represented by stars, each star corresponding to two standard deviations above the mean of the background distribution.

Developed by Alberto Santos, Oana Palasca, Christian Stolte, Kalliopi Tsafou, Sune Frankild, Janos Binder, Sean O'Donoghue, Jan Gorodkin, and Lars Juhl Jensen from the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research, Center for non-coding RNA in Technology and Health, and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO).

Currently maintained by Qingyao Huang at Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Zurich. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.