LRRC7

Leucine rich repeat containing 7
Identifiers
Symbols LRRC7; DKFZp686I1147; KIAA1365; MGC144918
External IDs MGI2676665 HomoloGene10817 GeneCards: LRRC7 Gene
Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez 57554 242274
Ensembl ENSG00000033122 ENSMUSG00000028176
UniProt Q96NW7 Q3URB9
RefSeq (mRNA) NM_020794 NM_001081358.1
RefSeq (protein) NP_065845 NP_001074827.1
Location (UCSC) Chr 1:
70.03 – 70.59 Mb
Chr 3:
157.75 – 158.23 Mb
PubMed search [1] [2]

Leucine rich repeat containing 7 also known as LRRC7, Densin-180, or LAP1 is a protein which in humans is encoded by the LRRC7 gene.[1]

Contents

Structure

Found to be densely associated to the postsynaptic density (PSD), it has been characterised as a 188 kDa (originally thought to be 180 kDa, hence nomenclature), 1495 residues long, brain-specific protein containing 16 leucine-rich repeats (LRRs) within the 500 N-terminal residues, and one Psd95/Discs large/Zona occludens (PDZ) domain within the 200 C-terminal residues. Originally postulated to have an apparent transmembrane domain, it has now been shown that the protein has numerous phosphorylation sites both N- and C-term of this domain, and that protein is therefore cytoplasmic; palmitoylation is thought to occur near the N-terminus of the protein which would account for localisation of the protein at the PSD.[2]

Interactions

LRRC7 has been shown to interact with CDH2.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Entrez Gene: LRRC7 leucine rich repeat containing 7". http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=gene&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=57554. 
  2. ^ Thalhammer A, Trinidad JC, Burlingame AL, Schoepfer R (April 2009). "Densin-180: revised membrane topology, domain structure and phosphorylation status". J. Neurochem. 109 (2): 297–302. doi:10.1111/j.1471-4159.2009.05951.x. PMC 2846389. PMID 19187442. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=2846389. 
  3. ^ Izawa, Ichiro; Nishizawa Miwako, Ohtakara Kazuhiro, Inagaki Masaki (Feb. 2002). "Densin-180 interacts with delta-catenin/neural plakophilin-related armadillo repeat protein at synapses". J. Biol. Chem. (United States) 277 (7): 5345–50. doi:10.1074/jbc.M110052200. ISSN 0021-9258. PMID 11729199. 

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