background:
This gene is a member of the visinin/recoverin subfamily of neuronal calcium sensor proteins. The encoded protein is strongly expressed in granule cells of the cerebellum where it associates with membranes in a calcium-dependent manner and modulates intracellular signaling pathways of the central nervous system by directly or indirectly regulating the activity of adenylyl cyclase. Alternatively spliced transcript variants have been observed, but their full-length nature has not been determined.
Function:
Regulates (in vitro) the inhibition of rhodopsin phosphorylation in a calcium-dependent manner.
Tissue Specificity:
Brain and retina. Neuron-specific in the central and peripheral nervous system. Increased in the cerebrospinal fluid of Alzheimer disease patients (at protein level).
Similarity:
Belongs to the recoverin family.
Contains 4 EF-hand domains.
Database links:
Entrez Gene: 396189 Chicken
Entrez Gene: 282124 Cow
Entrez Gene: 7447 Human
Entrez Gene: 26950 Mouse
Entrez Gene: 10017388 Orangutan
Entrez Gene: 24877 Rat
Omim: 600817 Human
SwissProt: P62764 Chicken
SwissProt: P62763 Cow
SwissProt: Q4R5F7 Cynomolgus Monkey
SwissProt: P62760 Human
SwissProt: P62761 Mouse
SwissProt: Q5RD22 Orangutan
SwissProt: P62762 Rat
Unigene: 444212 Human
Unigene: 27005 Mouse
Unigene: 105934 Rat
Important Note:
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