TMOD4

Tropomodulin 4 (muscle)
Identifiers
SymbolsTMOD4 ; SK-TMOD
External IDsOMIM: 605834 MGI: 1355285 HomoloGene: 8355 GeneCards: TMOD4 Gene
Orthologs
SpeciesHumanMouse
Entrez2976550874
EnsemblENSG00000163157ENSMUSG00000005628
UniProtQ9NZQ9Q9JLH8
RefSeq (mRNA)NM_013353NM_016712
RefSeq (protein)NP_037485NP_057921
Location (UCSC)Chr 1:
151.14 – 151.15 Mb
Chr 3:
95.12 – 95.13 Mb
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Tropomodulin 4 (muscle) also known as TMOD4 is a protein which in humans is encoded by the TMOD4 gene.[1][2]

Function

This gene encodes a muscle-specific member of the tropomodulin family of actin-regulatory proteins. The encoded protein caps the pointed end of actin filaments preventing both elongation and depolymerization. The capping activity of this protein is dependent on its association with tropomyosin. Alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been described.[3]

References

  1. Cox PR, Zoghbi HY (January 2000). "Sequencing, expression analysis, and mapping of three unique human tropomodulin genes and their mouse orthologs". Genomics 63 (1): 97–107. doi:10.1006/geno.1999.6061. PMID 10662549.
  2. Almenar-Queralt A, Lee A, Conley CA, Ribas de Pouplana L, Fowler VM (October 1999). "Identification of a novel tropomodulin isoform, skeletal tropomodulin, that caps actin filament pointed ends in fast skeletal muscle". J. Biol. Chem. 274 (40): 28466–75. doi:10.1074/jbc.274.40.28466. PMID 10497209.
  3. "Entrez Gene: TMOD4 , Tropomodulin 4 (muscle)".

Further reading

This article incorporates text from the United States National Library of Medicine, which is in the public domain.