Gene: Hexb (hexosaminidase B)  Mus musculus

Symbol: Hexb
Name: hexosaminidase B
Description: ENCODES a protein that exhibits beta-N-acetylhexosaminidase activity; protein homodimerization activity; beta-N-acetylglucosaminidase activity (ortholog); INVOLVED IN astrocyte cell migration; cellular calcium ion homeostasis; cellular protein metabolic process; PARTICIPATES IN amino sugar metabolic pathway; ganglioside metabolic pathway; globoside metabolic pathway; ASSOCIATED WITH abnormal axial skeleton morphology; abnormal brain morphology; abnormal CNS glial cell morphology; ASSOCIATED WITH Muscular Atrophy, Spinal (ortholog); Sandhoff Disease (ortholog); FOUND IN acrosomal vesicle; lysosome; membrane; INTERACTS WITH 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzodioxine; benzo[a]pyrene; bis(2-chloroethyl) sulfide
Type: protein-coding
RefSeq Status: VALIDATED
Also known as: beta-hexosaminidase subunit beta; beta-N-acetylhexosaminidase subunit beta; hexosaminidase subunit B; N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase subunit beta
Orthologs: Homo sapiens : HEXB (hexosaminidase B (beta polypeptide))  HGNC
Rattus norvegicus : Hexb (hexosaminidase B)
Latest Assembly: Mouse Genome Assembly Build 37
Position:
MapChrPositionStrandSource
Mouse Genome Assembly GRCm381397,176,331 - 97,198,357-NCBI
Mouse cM Map1350.66 NCBI
Mouse Celera Assembly13100,809,364 - 100,830,755-NCBI
Mouse Genome Assembly Build 371397,946,286 - 97,968,312-NCBI
Mouse Genome Assembly Build 36.11397,946,362 - 97,968,225-NCBI
Mouse Cytogenetic Map13 D1 NCBI
Model

Launch Genome Browser (GBrowse)


Disease Annotations
Gene-Chemical Interaction Annotations
Gene Ontology Annotations
Molecular Pathway Annotations
Phenotype Annotations
References - curated
References - uncurated
RGD Disease Portals

Genomics

Comparative Map Data
Position Markers
QTLs in Region (Mouse Genome Assembly Build 37)

Sequence

Nucleotide Sequences
Protein Sequences
Promoters

Additional Information

External Database Links
 
More on Hexb
Entrez Gene
Ensembl Gene
Genome Browser
MGI Report
NCBI Map Viewer
Vista
Vista + UCSC

RGD Object Information
RGD ID: 1316899
Created: 2005-01-12
Species: Mus musculus
Last Modified: 2013-02-27
Status: ACTIVE