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Entrez GeneID

GeneBank Accession#

Protein Accession#

Gene Name

RARA

Gene Alias

NR1B1, RAR

Gene Description

retinoic acid receptor, alpha

Omim ID

Gene Ontology

Gene Summary

Retinoid signaling is transduced by 2 families of nuclear receptors, retinoic acid receptor (RAR) and retinoid X receptor (RXR; see MIM 180245), which form RXR/RAR heterodimers. In the absence of ligand, DNA-bound RXR/RARA represses transcription by recruiting the corepressors NCOR1 (MIM 600849), SMRT (NCOR2; MIM 600848), and histone deacetylase (see MIM 601241). When ligand binds to the complex, it induces a conformational change allowing the recruitment of coactivators, histone acetyltransferases (see MIM 603053), and the basic transcription machinery. Translocations that always involve rearrangement of the RARA gene are a cardinal feature of acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL; MIM 612376). The most frequent translocation is t(15,17)(q21;q22), which fuses the RARA gene with the PML gene (MIM 102578) (Vitoux et al., 2007 [PubMed 17468032]).[supplied by OMIM

Other Designations

OTTHUMP00000164454|OTTHUMP00000164456|Retinoic acid receptor, alpha polypeptide|nucleophosmin-retinoic acid receptor alpha fusion protein NPM-RAR long form