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Rabbit Anti-mu Crystallin antibody
Crystallins are separated into two classes: taxon-specific and ubiquitous. The former class is also called phylogenetically-restricted crystallins. The latter class constitutes the major proteins of vertebrate eye lens and maintains the transparency and refractive index of the lens. This gene encodes a taxon-specific crystallin protein that binds NADPH and has sequence similarity to bacterial ornithine cyclodeaminases. The encoded protein does not perform a structural role in lens tissue, and instead it binds thyroid hormone for possible regulatory or developmental roles. Mutations in this gene have been associated with autosomal dominant non-syndromic deafness. Multiple alternatively spliced transcript variants have been found for this gene. [provided by RefSeq, Mar 2010]
Function:
Binds thyroid hormone. Presumably involved in the regulation of the free intracellular concentration of triiodothyronine and access to its nuclear receptors.
Subcellular Location:
Cytoplasm.
Tissue Specificity:
Expressed in neural tissue, muscle and kidney.
Similarity:
Belongs to the ornithine cyclodeaminase family.
SWISS:
Q14894
Gene ID:
1428
Database links:
Entrez Gene: 1428 Human
Entrez Gene: 505167 Cow
Entrez Gene: 12971 Mouse
Entrez Gene: 117024 Rat
Omim: 123740 Human
SwissProt: Q14894 Human
SwissProt: O54983 Mouse
SwissProt: Q9QYU4 Rat
Unigene: 924 Human
Unigene: 9114 Mouse
Unigene: 24561 Rat
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