HSD17B8

Hydroxysteroid (17-beta) dehydrogenase 8
PDB rendering based on 2pd6.
Available structures PDB Ortholog search: Template:Homologene2PDBe PDBe, Template:Homologene2uniprot RCSB List of PDB id codes 2pd6​
Identifiers
Symbols	HSD17B8 ; RING2; D6S2245E; FABG; FABGL; H2-KE6; HKE6; KE6; dJ1033B10.9
External IDs	Template:OMIM5 Template:MGI HomoloGene: 56588
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Species	Human	Mouse
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Hydroxysteroid (17-beta) dehydrogenase 8, also known as HSD17B8, is a human gene.

In mice, the Ke6 protein is a 17-beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase that can regulate the concentration of biologically active estrogens and androgens. It is preferentially an oxidative enzyme and inactivates estradiol, testosterone, and dihydrotestosterone. However, the enzyme has some reductive activity and can synthesize estradiol from estrone. The protein encoded by this gene is similar to Ke6 and is a member of the short-chain dehydrogenase superfamily. An alternatively spliced transcript of this gene has been detected, but the full-length nature of this variant has not been determined.

Further reading

• Ando A, Kikuti YY, Shigenari A; et al. (1996). "cDNA cloning of the human homologues of the mouse Ke4 and Ke6 genes at the centromeric end of the human MHC region". Genomics. 35 (3): 600–2. doi:10.1006/geno.1996.0405. PMID 8812499.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Kikuti YY, Tamiya G, Ando A; et al. (1997). "Physical mapping 220 kb centromeric of the human MHC and DNA sequence analysis of the 43-kb segment including the RING1, HKE6, and HKE4 genes". Genomics. 42 (3): 422–35. doi:10.1006/geno.1997.4745. PMID 9205114.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Fomitcheva J, Baker ME, Anderson E; et al. (1998). "Characterization of Ke 6, a new 17beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase, and its expression in gonadal tissues". J. Biol. Chem. 273 (35): 22664–71. PMID 9712896.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Hartley JL, Temple GF, Brasch MA (2001). "DNA cloning using in vitro site-specific recombination". Genome Res. 10 (11): 1788–95. PMID 11076863.CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Aziz N, Anderson E, Lee GY, Woo DD (2001). "Arrested testis development in the cpk mouse may be the result of abnormal steroid metabolism". Mol. Cell. Endocrinol. 171 (1–2): 83–8. PMID 11165015.CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Kutsenko AS, Gizatullin RZ, Al-Amin AN; et al. (2002). "NotI flanking sequences: a tool for gene discovery and verification of the human genome". Nucleic Acids Res. 30 (14): 3163–70. PMID 12136098.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• 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. PMID 12477932.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Mungall AJ, Palmer SA, Sims SK; et al. (2003). "The DNA sequence and analysis of human chromosome 6". Nature. 425 (6960): 805–11. doi:10.1038/nature02055. PMID 14574404.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• 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. PMID 15489334.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Wiemann S, Arlt D, Huber W; et al. (2004). "From ORFeome to biology: a functional genomics pipeline". Genome Res. 14 (10B): 2136–44. doi:10.1101/gr.2576704. PMID 15489336.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Mehrle A, Rosenfelder H, Schupp I; et al. (2006). "The LIFEdb database in 2006". Nucleic Acids Res. 34 (Database issue): D415–8. doi:10.1093/nar/gkj139. PMID 16381901.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Song D, Liu G, Luu-The V; et al. (2006). "Expression of aromatase and 17beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase types 1, 7 and 12 in breast cancer. An immunocytochemical study". J. Steroid Biochem. Mol. Biol. 101 (2–3): 136–44. doi:10.1016/j.jsbmb.2006.06.015. PMID 16930994.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Villar J, Celay J, Alonso MM; et al. (2007). "Transcriptional regulation of the human type 8 17beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase gene by C/EBPbeta". J. Steroid Biochem. Mol. Biol. 105 (1–5): 131–9. doi:10.1016/j.jsbmb.2006.12.106. PMID 17583490.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)