ACER3
Encyclopedia
Alkaline ceramidase 3 also known as ACER3 is a ceramidase
enzyme
which in human
s is encoded by the ACER3 gene
.
Ceramidase
Ceramidase is an enzyme which cleaves fatty acids from ceramide, producing sphingosine which in turn is phosphorylated by a sphingosine kinase to form sphingosine-1-phosphate .- Function :...
enzyme
Enzyme
Enzymes are proteins that catalyze chemical reactions. In enzymatic reactions, the molecules at the beginning of the process, called substrates, are converted into different molecules, called products. Almost all chemical reactions in a biological cell need enzymes in order to occur at rates...
which in human
Human
Humans are the only living species in the Homo genus...
s is encoded by the ACER3 gene
Gene
A gene is a molecular unit of heredity of a living organism. It is a name given to some stretches of DNA and RNA that code for a type of protein or for an RNA chain that has a function in the organism. Living beings depend on genes, as they specify all proteins and functional RNA chains...
.