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

Protein family

Cancer-related genes, Enzymes, FDA approved drug targets, Mapped to neXtProt, Mapped to UniProt SWISS-PROT, Predicted intracellular proteins, Protein evidence (Peptideatlas)

Chromosome

17:q21.31 (44076746 - 44123702)

Ensembl ID

ENSG00000108840  (ver. 99.38)

Orthologs

Mouse Hdac5: ENSMUSG00000008855

UniProt

Q9UQL6

neXtProt

NX_Q9UQL6

Human splice variants
Mouse splice variants