Interacting selectively and non-covalently with nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide, a coenzyme involved in many redox and biosynthetic reactions; binding may be to either the oxidized form, NAD+, or the reduced form, NADH.
The chemical reactions and pathways involving carbohydrates, any of a group of organic compounds based of the general formula Cx(H2O)y. Includes the formation of carbohydrate derivatives by the addition of a carbohydrate residue to another molecule.
In this paper we present the entire genomic sequence as well as the cDNA sequence of two new human genes encoding the gamma subunit of the NAD(+)-dependent isocitrate dehydrogenase (H-IDH gamma) and the translocon-associated protein delta subunit (TRAP delta). These genes are located on region q28 of the human X chromosome, approximately 70 kb telomeric to the adrenoleukodystrophy locus (ALD). The sequences of the transcripts of both genes were obtained by searching the EST database with genomic data. Identified ESTs were completely sequenced and assembled to cDNAs comprising the entire coding region. For IDH gamma, several EST clones indicate differential splicing. IDH gamma and TRAP delta are arranged in a compact head to head manner. The nontranscribed intergenic region represents only 133 bp and is embedded in a CpG island. The CpG island obviously functions as a bidirectional promoter to initiate the transcription of both functionally unrelated genes with quite distinct expression patterns. This exceptional gene arrangement prompted us to clone and sequence genomic DNA fragments containing the homologous intergenic regions of rat and mouse. We show that in both species this area is similarly compact and represents less than 249 bp in rat and not more than 164 bp in mouse. In both cases this intergenic region is embedded in a CpG island and is highly conserved with nucleotide identity values ranging from 70.1% between human and rat to 92.6% between mouse and rat.
The chemical reactions and pathways involving isocitrate, the anion of isocitric acid, 1-hydroxy-1,2,3-propanetricarboxylic acid. Isocitrate is an important intermediate in the TCA cycle and the glycoxylate cycle.
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Enzymatic activity
This protein acts as an enzyme. It is known to catalyze the following reaction
Protein involved in the tricarboxylic acid cycle, a series of metabolic reactions in aerobic cellular respiration, which occurs in the mitochondria of animals and plants and in which acetyl-CoA, formed from pyruvate produced during glycolysis, is completely oxidized to CO2 via the interconversion of various carboxylic acids. It results in the reduction of NAD and FAD to NADH and FADH2, whose reducing power is then used indirectly in the synthesis of ATP by oxidative phosphorylation. The TCA cycle also provides intermediates for many other biosynthetic processes.
A reference proteome is a set of protein sequences derived from a complete proteome which constitutes a defined standard for a particular user community. Reference proteomes are manually defined according to a number of criteria. They cover the proteomes of well- studied model organisms and other proteomes of interest for biomedical and biotechnological research. Reference proteomes have been selected to provide broad coverage of the tree of life, and constitute a representative cross-section of the taxonomic diversity to be found within UniProtKB.