ASPA Products

Description

ASPA encodes an enzyme that catalyzes the conversion of N-acetyl_L-aspartic acid (NAA) to aspartate and acetate. NAA is abundant in the brain where hydrolysis by aspartoacylase is thought to help maintain white matter. This protein is an NAA scavenger in other tissues. Mutations in this gene cause Canavan disease. Alternatively spliced transcript variants have been found for this gene. [provided by RefSeq]

Bioinformatics

Entrez	443 Human
Uniprot	NM_000049 Human NP_000040 Human NP_000040.1 Human NP_001121557 Human P45381 Human
Product By Gene ID	443
Alternate Names	ACY-2 ACY2aminoacylase 2 Aminoacylase-2 ASPaminoacylase-2 aspartoacylase (aminoacylase 2, Canavan disease) aspartoacylase EC 3.5.1.15