ACO1

ACO1
Available structures
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Identifiers
Aliases ACO1, ACONS, HEL60, IREB1, IREBP, IREBP1, IRP1, aconitase 1
External IDs MGI: 87879 HomoloGene: 1657 GeneCards: ACO1
Genetically Related Diseases
asthma[1]
Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez

48

11428

Ensembl

ENSG00000122729

ENSMUSG00000028405

UniProt

P21399

P28271

RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_001278352
NM_002197

NM_007386

RefSeq (protein)

NP_001265281.1
NP_002188.1

NP_031412.2

Location (UCSC) Chr 9: 32.38 – 32.45 Mb Chr 4: 40.14 – 40.2 Mb
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Aconitase 1, soluble is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ACO1 gene.[4]

Function

The protein encoded by this gene is a bifunctional, cytosolic protein that functions as an essential enzyme in the TCA cycle and interacts with mRNA to control the levels of iron inside cells. When cellular iron levels are high, this protein binds to a 4Fe-4S cluster and functions as an aconitase. Aconitases are iron-sulfur proteins that function to catalyze the conversion of citrate to isocitrate. When cellular iron levels are low, the protein binds to iron-responsive elements (IREs), which are stem-loop structures found in the 5' UTR of ferritin mRNA, and in the 3' UTR of transferrin receptor mRNA. When the protein binds to IRE, it results in repression of translation of ferritin mRNA, and inhibition of degradation of the otherwise rapidly degraded transferrin receptor mRNA. The encoded protein has been identified as a moonlighting protein based on its ability to perform mechanistically distinct functions. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants.[4]

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