Recommended nomenclature for five mammalian carboxylesterase gene families: human, mouse, and rat genes and proteins.

ABSTRACT: Mammalian carboxylesterase (CES or Ces) genes encode enzymes that participate in xenobiotic, drug, and lipid metabolism in the body and are members of at least five gene families. Tandem duplications have added more genes for some families, particularly for mouse and rat genomes, which has caused confusion in naming rodent Ces genes. This article describes a new nomenclature system for human, mouse, and rat carboxylesterase genes that identifies homolog gene families and allocates a unique name for each gene. The guidelines of human, mouse, and rat gene nomenclature committees were followed and "CES" (human) and "Ces" (mouse and rat) root symbols were used followed by the family number (e.g., human CES1). Where multiple genes were identified for a family or where a clash occurred with an e

SUBMITTER: Holmes RS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3127206 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature