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Liver cancers along with several cases of squamous cell carcinomas, pancreatic, gastric, urothelial and ovarian cancers displayed moderate to strong cytoplasmic immunoreactivity with additional nuclear/membranous staining in several cases. Remaining malignant cells were in general negative.
GENE INFORMATION
Gene name
AKR1C1 (HGNC Symbol)
Synonyms
DD1, DDH, DDH1, HAKRC, MBAB
Description
Aldo-keto reductase family 1, member C1 (HGNC Symbol)
Entrez gene summary
This gene encodes a member of the aldo/keto reductase superfamily, which consists of more than 40 known enzymes and proteins. These enzymes catalyze the conversion of aldehydes and ketones to their corresponding alcohols by utilizing NADH and/or NADPH as cofactors. The enzymes display overlapping but distinct substrate specificity. This enzyme catalyzes the reaction of progesterone to the inactive form 20-alpha-hydroxy-progesterone. This gene shares high sequence identity with three other gene members and is clustered with those three genes at chromosome 10p15-p14. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]