Indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase

Indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase

Identifiers Symbols IDO1; IDO; IDO-1; INDO External IDs OMIM: 147435 MGI: 96416 HomoloGene: 48082 ChEMBL: 4685 GeneCards: IDO1 Gene EC number 1.13.11.52

Gene Ontology
Molecular function • tryptophan 2,3-dioxygenase activity
• electron carrier activity
• amino acid binding
• oxygen binding
• heme binding
• indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase activity
• metal ion binding
Cellular component • cytosol
• smooth muscle contractile fiber
• stereocilium bundle
Biological process • cytokine production involved in inflammatory response
• positive regulation of T cell tolerance induction
• positive regulation of chronic inflammatory response
• positive regulation of type 2 immune response
• tryptophan catabolic process
• female pregnancy
• behavior
• tryptophan catabolic process to kynurenine
• response to lipopolysaccharide
• negative regulation of interleukin-10 production
• positive regulation of interleukin-12 production
• multicellular organismal response to stress
• kynurenic acid biosynthetic process
• cellular nitrogen compound metabolic process
• positive regulation of apoptotic process
• small molecule metabolic process
• negative regulation of activated T cell proliferation
• negative regulation of T cell apoptotic process
Sources: Amigo / QuickGO
RNA expression pattern More reference expression data Orthologs Species Human Mouse Entrez 3620 15930 Ensembl ENSG00000131203 ENSMUSG00000031551 UniProt P14902 P28776 RefSeq (mRNA) NM_002164.5 NM_008324.1 RefSeq (protein) NP_002155.1 NP_032350.1 Location (UCSC) Chr 8:
39.76 – 39.79 Mb Chr 8:
24.58 – 24.6 Mb PubMed search

Indoleamine-pyrrole 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO or INDO EC 1.13.11.52) is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the IDO1 gene. This enzyme catalyzes the degradation of the essential amino acid L-tryptophan to N-formylkynurenine.

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