MUC5AC

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Mucin 5AC, oligomeric mucus/gel-forming
Identifiers
SymbolsMUC5AC; MUC5; TBM; leB
External IDsOMIM: 158373 HomoloGene: 88249 GeneCards: MUC5AC Gene
Orthologs
SpeciesHumanMouse
Entrez4586n/a
EnsemblENSG00000215182n/a
UniProtP98088n/a
RefSeq (mRNA)NM_017511n/a
RefSeq (protein)XP_003119529n/a
Location (UCSC)Chr 11:
1.15 – 1.22 Mb
n/a
PubMed searchn/a

Mucin-5AC is a protein that in humans is encoded by the MUC5AC gene.[1][2][3]

Clinical relevance

This gene has been linked to mucus hypersecretion in the pulmonary tracts and associated to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).[4]

References

  1. Guyonnet Duperat V, Audie JP, Debailleul V, Laine A, Buisine MP, Galiegue-Zouitina S, Pigny P, Degand P, Aubert JP, Porchet N (Feb 1995). "Characterization of the human mucin gene MUC5AC: a consensus cysteine-rich domain for 11p15 mucin genes?". Biochem J 305 (Pt 1): 211–9. PMC 1136451. PMID 7826332. 
  2. van de Bovenkamp JH, Hau CM, Strous GJ, Buller HA, Dekker J, Einerhand AW (Jun 1998). "Molecular cloning of human gastric mucin MUC5AC reveals conserved cysteine-rich D-domains and a putative leucine zipper motif". Biochem Biophys Res Commun 245 (3): 853–9. doi:10.1006/bbrc.1998.8535. PMID 9588204. 
  3. "Entrez Gene: MUC5AC mucin 5AC, oligomeric mucus/gel-forming". 
  4. Wang G, Xu Z, Wang R, Al-Hijji M, Salit J, Strulovici-Barel Y, Tilley A, Mezey J, Crystal R (June 2012). "Genes associated with MUC5AC expression in small airway epithelium of human smokers and nonsmokers". BMC Med Genomics 5 (1): 21. doi:10.1186/1755-8794-5-21. PMC 3443416. PMID 22676183. 

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