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SUBMITTER: Salazar-Gonzalez RA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7200704 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Salazar-González Raúl A RA Doll Mark A MA Hein David W DW
Scientific reports 20200505 1
Human N-acetyltransferases (NAT; EC 2.3.1.5) catalyze the N-acetylation of arylamine and hydrazine drugs and the O-acetylation of N-hydroxylated metabolites of aromatic and heterocyclic amines. Two different isoforms of this protein, N-acetyltransferase 1 (NAT1) and N-acetyltransferase 2 (NAT2), are expressed in human hepatocytes. Both are encoded by a single 870-bp open reading frame that exhibits genetic polymorphisms in human populations. NAT1 and NAT2 share more than 85% gene and protein seq ...[more]