HDAC5

Histones play a critical role in transcriptional regulation, cell cycle progression, and developmental events. Histone acetylation/deacetylation alters chromosome structure and affects transcription factor access to DNA. The protein encoded by this gene belongs to the class II histone deacetylase/acuc/apha family. It possesses histone deacetylase activity and represses transcription when tethered to a promoter. It coimmunoprecipitates only with HDAC3 family member and might form multicomplex proteins. It also interacts with myocyte enhancer factor-2 (MEF2) proteins, resulting in repression of MEF2-dependent genes. This gene is thought to be associated with colon cancer. Two transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been found for this gene. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]

Description

Histone deacetylase 5

Tissue specificity

Low tissue specificity

Subcell location

Nuclear speckles, Golgi apparatus, Cytosol

Predicted location

Intracellular

Protein family

Cancer-related genes
Enzymes
FDA approved drug targets
Mapped to neXtProt
Mapped to UniProt SWISS-PROT
Predicted intracellular proteins
Protein evidence (Ezkurdia et al 2014)
Protein evidence (Kim et al 2014)

Chromosome

17:q21.31 (44076746 - 44123702)

Ensembl ID

ENSG00000108840  (ver. 103.38)

Orthologs

Mouse Hdac5: ENSMUSG00000008855

UniProt

Q9UQL6

neXtProt

NX_Q9UQL6

Human splice variants
Mouse splice variants