PKP3

Plakophilin 3
Identifiers
Symbols PKP3;
External IDs OMIM605561 MGI1891830 HomoloGene5200 GeneCards: PKP3 Gene
RNA expression pattern
More reference expression data
Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez 11187 56460
Ensembl ENSG00000184363 ENSMUSG00000054065
UniProt Q9Y446 Q0VGP3
RefSeq (mRNA) XM_001129327 NM_019762
RefSeq (protein) XP_001129327 NP_062736
Location (UCSC) Chr 11:
0.39 – 0.4 Mb
Chr 7:
148.26 – 148.28 Mb
PubMed search [1] [2]

Plakophilin-3 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the PKP3 gene.[1][2]

This gene encodes a member of the arm-repeat (armadillo) and plakophilin gene families. Plakophilin proteins contain numerous armadillo repeats, localize to cell desmosomes and nuclei, and participate in linking cadherins to intermediate filaments in the cytoskeleton. This protein may act in cellular desmosome-dependent adhesion and signaling pathways.[2]

Interactions

PKP3 has been shown to interact with Desmoglein 3,[3] DSC3,[3] Desmoglein 2[3] and Desmoglein 1.[3]

References

  1. ^ Schmidt A, Langbein L, Pratzel S, Rode M, Rackwitz HR, Franke WW (Jun 1999). "Plakophilin 3--a novel cell-type-specific desmosomal plaque protein". Differentiation 64 (5): 291–306. doi:10.1046/j.1432-0436.1999.6450291.x. PMID 10374265. 
  2. ^ a b "Entrez Gene: PKP3 plakophilin 3". http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=gene&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=11187. 
  3. ^ a b c d Bonné, Stefan; Gilbert Barbara, Hatzfeld Mechthild, Chen Xinyu, Green Kathleen J, van Roy Frans (Apr. 2003). "Defining desmosomal plakophilin-3 interactions". J. Cell Biol. (United States) 161 (2): 403–16. doi:10.1083/jcb.200303036. ISSN 0021-9525. PMC 2172904. PMID 12707304. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=2172904. 

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