{"symbol":"AHSP","synonyms":["EDRF","ERAF"],"name":"alpha hemoglobin stabilizing protein","description":"This gene encodes a molecular chaperone which binds specifically to free alpha-globin and is involved in hemoglobin assembly. The encoded protein binds to monomeric alpha-globin until it has been transferred to beta-globin to form a heterodimer, which in turn binds to another heterodimer to form the stable tetrameric hemoglobin. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants. [provided by RefSeq, Dec 2015]","ncbiEntrezGeneId":51327,"ncbiEntrezGeneUrl":"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/51327","proteins":[{"symbol":"AHSP_HUMAN","href":"/api/1.0/protein/AHSP_HUMAN"}],"hgncRootFamilies":[]}