Monoamine oxidase B

MAOB
Available structures
PDBOrtholog search: PDBe RCSB
Identifiers
AliasesMAOB, Monoamine oxidase B
External IDsOMIM: 309860; MGI: 96916; HomoloGene: 20251; GeneCards: MAOB; OMA:MAOB - orthologs
Orthologs
SpeciesHumanMouse
Entrez

4129

109731

Ensembl

ENSG00000069535

ENSMUSG00000040147

UniProt

P27338

Q8BW75

RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_000898

NM_172778

RefSeq (protein)

NP_000889

NP_766366

Location (UCSC)Chr X: 43.77 – 43.88 MbChr X: 16.58 – 16.68 Mb
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Monoamine oxidase B (MAO-B) is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the MAOB gene.

The protein encoded by this gene belongs to the flavin monoamine oxidase family. It is an enzyme located in the outer mitochondrial membrane. It catalyzes the oxidative deamination of biogenic and xenobiotic amines and plays an important role in the catabolism of neuroactive and vasoactive amines in the central nervous system and peripheral tissues. This protein preferentially degrades benzylamine and phenethylamine. Similar to monoamine oxidase A (MAO-A), MAO-B is also involved in the catabolism of dopamine.