ACOX3

Acyl-CoA oxidase 3, pristanoyl
Identifiers
Symbols	ACOX3;
External IDs	OMIM: 603402 MGI: 1933156 HomoloGene: 37792 GeneCards: ACOX3 Gene
EC number	1.3.3.6
Gene Ontology Molecular function • acyl-CoA dehydrogenase activity • acyl-CoA oxidase activity • pristanoyl-CoA oxidase activity • flavin adenine dinucleotide binding Cellular component • mitochondrion • peroxisome • peroxisomal matrix Biological process • fatty acid metabolic process • bile acid metabolic process • fatty acid beta-oxidation using acyl-CoA oxidase • cellular lipid metabolic process Sources: Amigo / QuickGO
RNA expression pattern
More reference expression data
Orthologs
Species	Human	Mouse
Entrez	8310	80911
Ensembl	ENSG00000087008	ENSMUSG00000029098
UniProt	O15254	Q7TPP6
RefSeq (mRNA)	NM_001101667.1	NM_030721.2
RefSeq (protein)	NP_001095137.1	NP_109646.2
Location (UCSC)	Chr 4: 8.37 – 8.44 Mb	Chr 5: 35.93 – 35.96 Mb
PubMed search	[1]	[2]

Peroxisomal acyl-coenzyme A oxidase 3 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the ACOX3 gene.

Acyl-Coenzyme A oxidase 3 also known as pristanoyl -CoA oxidase (ACOX3)is involved in the desaturation of 2-methyl branched fatty acids in peroxisomes. Unlike the rat homolog, the human gene is expressed in very low amounts in liver such that its mRNA was undetectable by routine Northern-blot analysis or its product by immunoblotting or by enzyme activity measurements. However the human cDNA encoding a 700 amino acid protein with a peroxisomal targeting C-terminal tripeptide S-K-L was isolated and is thought to be expressed under special conditions such as specific developmental stages or in a tissue specific manner in tissues that have not yet been examined.

Further reading

• Maruyama K, Sugano S (1994). "Oligo-capping: a simple method to replace the cap structure of eukaryotic mRNAs with oligoribonucleotides.". Gene 138 (1–2): 171–4. doi:10.1016/0378-1119(94)90802-8. PMID 8125298. 
• Vanhove GF, Van Veldhoven PP, Fransen M, et al. (1993). "The CoA esters of 2-methyl-branched chain fatty acids and of the bile acid intermediates di- and trihydroxycoprostanic acids are oxidized by one single peroxisomal branched chain acyl-CoA oxidase in human liver and kidney". J. Biol. Chem. 268 (14): 10335–44. PMID 8387517. 
• Suzuki Y, Yoshitomo-Nakagawa K, Maruyama K, et al. (1997). "Construction and characterization of a full length-enriched and a 5'-end-enriched cDNA library". Gene 200 (1–2): 149–56. doi:10.1016/S0378-1119(97)00411-3. PMID 9373149. 
• Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH, et al. (2003). "Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99 (26): 16899–903. doi:10.1073/pnas.242603899. PMC 139241. PMID 12477932. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=139241. 
• Colland F, Jacq X, Trouplin V, et al. (2004). "Functional proteomics mapping of a human signaling pathway". Genome Res. 14 (7): 1324–32. doi:10.1101/gr.2334104. PMC 442148. PMID 15231748. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=442148. 
• Gerhard DS, Wagner L, Feingold EA, et al. (2004). "The status, quality, and expansion of the NIH full-length cDNA project: the Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC)". Genome Res. 14 (10B): 2121–7. doi:10.1101/gr.2596504. PMC 528928. PMID 15489334. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=528928. 
• Zha S, Ferdinandusse S, Hicks JL, et al. (2005). "Peroxisomal branched chain fatty acid beta-oxidation pathway is upregulated in prostate cancer". Prostate 63 (4): 316–23. doi:10.1002/pros.20177. PMID 15599942. 
• Kimura K, Wakamatsu A, Suzuki Y, et al. (2006). "Diversification of transcriptional modulation: large-scale identification and characterization of putative alternative promoters of human genes". Genome Res. 16 (1): 55–65. doi:10.1101/gr.4039406. PMC 1356129. PMID 16344560. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=1356129.