“…In rats, AKR1B14 has highest amino-acid sequence identity (87%) to the corresponding mouse AR-like protein AKR1B7 (Val et al, 2002). Both AKR1B14 and AKR1B7 show prostaglandin F 2 synthase activity (Lambert-Langlais et al, 2009) and also display broad substrate specificity for various aldehydes, -dicarbonyl compounds and some aromatic ketones (Lefrançois- Martinez et al, 1999;Martinez et al, 2001;Endo, Matsunaga, Fujita et al, 2010). However, the two enzymes differ in their K m value for the coenzyme NADP(H).…”