HSD17B8

In mice, the Ke6 protein is a 17-beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase that can regulate the concentration of biologically active estrogens and androgens. It is preferentially an oxidative enzyme and inactivates estradiol, testosterone, and dihydrotestosterone. However, the enzyme has some reductive activity and can synthesize estradiol from estrone. The protein encoded by this gene is similar to Ke6 and is a member of the short-chain dehydrogenase superfamily. An alternatively spliced transcript of this gene has been detected, but the full-length nature of this variant has not been determined. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]

Description

Hydroxysteroid 17-beta dehydrogenase 8

Tissue specificity

Low tissue specificity

Predicted location

Intracellular

Protein family

Enzymes
Mapped to neXtProt
Mapped to UniProt SWISS-PROT
Metabolic proteins
Predicted intracellular proteins
Protein evidence (Ezkurdia et al 2014)
Protein evidence (Kim et al 2014)

Chromosome

6 (33204655 - 33206831)

Ensembl ID

ENSG00000204228  (ver. 103.38)

Orthologs

Mouse H2-Ke6: ENSMUSG00000073422

UniProt

Q92506

neXtProt

NX_Q92506

Human splice variants
Mouse splice variants

Protein structure