Description
Product Characteristics: BDMF, DMSFH, DMSMFH, Epididymis luminal protein 249, HEL249, LGMBF, MeSAdo phosphorylase, Methylthioadenosine phosphorylase, MSAP, MTA phosphorylase, MTAP, MTAPase, S-methyl-5''-thioadenosine phosphorylase,MTAP (Tumor Suppressor Marker)
Cellular localisation: Cytoplasmic
Target Information: This gene encodes an enzyme that plays a major role in polyamine metabolism and is important for the salvage of both adenine and methionine. The encoded enzyme is deficient in many cancers because this gene and the tumor suppressor p16 gene are co-deleted. Multiple alternatively spliced transcript variants have been described for this gene, but their full-length natures remain unknown. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]