Description
Product Characteristics: This immunoassay kit allows for the in vitro quantitative determination of human Aspartoacylase concentrations in serum, plasma, tissue homogenates and cell culture supernates and other biological fluids.
Target Information: This gene encodes an enzyme that catalyzes the conversion of N-acetyl_L-aspartic acid (NAA) to aspartate and acetate. NAA is abundant in the brain where hydrolysis by aspartoacylase is thought to help maintain white matter. This protein is an NAA scavenger in other tissues. Mutations in this gene cause Canavan disease. Alternatively spliced transcript variants have been found for this gene. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]