The hepatotrophic factor designated augmenter of liver regeneration (ALR) is thought to be one of the factors responsible for the extraordinary regenerative capacity of mammalian liver. It has also been called hepatic regenerative stimulation substance (HSS). The gene resides on chromosome 16 in the interval containing the locus for polycystic kidney disease (PKD1). The putative gene product is 42% similar to the scERV1 protein of yeast. The yeast scERV1 gene had been found to be essential for oxidative phosphorylation, the maintenance of mitochondrial genomes, and the cell division cycle. The human gene is both the structural and functional homolog of the yeast scERV1 gene.
Categories
Primary Antibodies
Cellular Localization
Cytoplasm, Mitochondria, Secreted
Clonality
polyclonal
Description
GFER(FAD-linked sulfhydryl oxidase) is also named as ALR, HERV1, HPO. It plays an important role in the disulfide relay system (DRS) in human mitochondria.The GFER gene codes for 2 distinct isoforms that are probably synthesized from the same mRNA with the use of different initiation codons. The long isoform (205 amino acids, 23 kD) is located mainly in the mitochondrial intermembrane space and exists under nonreducing and nondenaturing conditions as a homodimer and a heterodimer. The shorter isoform (125 amino acids, 15 kD), which lacks 80 amino acids at its N terminus compared to the longer isoform, is present predominantly in the nucleus(PMID:19409522).