ADD3

Adducin 3 (gamma)
Identifiers
SymbolsADD3 ; ADDL
External IDsOMIM: 601568 MGI: 1351615 HomoloGene: 40893 GeneCards: ADD3 Gene
RNA expression pattern
More reference expression data
Orthologs
SpeciesHumanMouse
Entrez12027360
EnsemblENSG00000148700ENSMUSG00000025026
UniProtQ9UEY8Q9QYB5
RefSeq (mRNA)NM_001121NM_001164099
RefSeq (protein)NP_001112NP_001157571
Location (UCSC)Chr 10:
111.76 – 111.9 Mb
Chr 19:
53.14 – 53.25 Mb
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Gamma-adducin is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ADD3 gene.[1][2]

Adducins are heteromeric proteins composed of different subunits referred to as adducin alpha, beta and gamma. The three subunits are encoded by distinct genes and belong to a family of membrane skeletal proteins involved in the assembly of spectrin-actin network in erythrocytes and at sites of cell-cell contact in epithelial tissues. While adducins alpha and gamma are ubiquitously expressed, the expression of adducin beta is restricted to brain and hematopoietic tissues. Adducin, originally purified from human erythrocytes, was found to be a heterodimer of adducins alpha and beta. Polymorphisms resulting in amino acid substitutions in these two subunits have been associated with the regulation of blood pressure in an animal model of hypertension. Heterodimers consisting of alpha and gamma subunits have also been described. Structurally, each subunit is composed of two distinct domains. The amino-terminal region is protease-resistant and globular in shape, while the carboxy-terminal region is protease-sensitive. The latter contains multiple phosphorylation sites for protein kinase C, the binding site for calmodulin, and is required for association with spectrin and actin. Alternatively spliced adducin gamma transcripts encoding different isoforms have been described. The functions of the different isoforms are not known.[2]

References

  1. Katagiri T, Ozaki K, Fujiwara T, Shimizu F, Kawai A, Okuno S, Suzuki M, Nakamura Y, Takahashi E, Hirai Y (Dec 1996). "Cloning, expression and chromosome mapping of adducin-like 70 (ADDL), a human cDNA highly homologous to human erythrocyte adducin". Cytogenet Cell Genet 74 (1–2): 90–5. doi:10.1159/000134389. PMID 8893809.
  2. 2.0 2.1 "Entrez Gene: ADD3 adducin 3 (gamma)".

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