Tubulin beta-4A chain

Tubulin, beta 4A class IVa

PDB rendering based on 1ffx.
Available structures
PDB Ortholog search: PDBe, RCSB
Identifiers
Symbols TUBB4A ; DYT4; TUBB4; beta-5
External IDs OMIM: 602662 MGI: 107848 HomoloGene: 55952 ChEMBL: 3838 GeneCards: TUBB4A Gene
RNA expression pattern
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Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez 10382 22153
Ensembl ENSG00000104833 ENSMUSG00000062591
UniProt P04350 Q9D6F9
RefSeq (mRNA) NM_001289123 NM_009451
RefSeq (protein) NP_001276052 NP_033477
Location (UCSC) Chr 19:
6.49 – 6.5 Mb
Chr 17:
57.08 – 57.09 Mb
PubMed search

Tubulin beta-4A chain is a protein that in humans is encoded by the TUBB4A gene. Two tubulin beta-4 chain proteins are encoded in the human genome by the genes TUBB4A (this entry) and TUBB4B.[1][2][3] Tubulin is the major constituent of microtubules, a key components of the cytoskeleton. It binds two moles of GTP, one at an exchangeable site on the beta-chain and one at a non-exchangeable site on the alpha-chain. TUBB4A is preferentially and highly expressed in the central nervous system.[4]

Clinical signficance

Mutations in TUBB4A have been associated with two neurological disorders.

An R2G substitution in the autoregulatory MREI domain of TUBB4A has been identified as the cause of 'hereditary whispering dysphonia' or DYT4.[5][6]

A de novo D249N mutation has been identified as the cause of a rare leukoencephalopathy, hypomyelination with atrophy of the basal ganglia and cerebellum (H-ABC).[7][8]

Mutations in TUBB4A are associated to Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease .[9]

References

  1. Hall JL, Dudley L, Dobner PR, Lewis SA, Cowan NJ (Aug 1983). "Identification of two human beta-tubulin isotypes". Mol Cell Biol 3 (5): 854–62. PMC 368608. PMID 6865944.
  2. Lee MG, Loomis C, Cowan NJ (Sep 1984). "Sequence of an expressed human beta-tubulin gene containing ten Alu family members". Nucleic Acids Res 12 (14): 5823–36. doi:10.1093/nar/12.14.5823. PMC 320034. PMID 6462917.
  3. "Entrez Gene: TUBB4 tubulin, beta 4".
  4. "UCSC Genome Browser: TUBB4A microarray expression".
  5. Hersheson J, Mencacci NE, Davis M, Macdonald N, Trabzuni D, Ryten M, Pittman A, Paudel R, Kara E, Fawcett K, Plagnol V, Bhatia KP, Medlar AJ, Stanescu HC, Hardy J, Kleta R, Wood NW, Houlden H (December 2012). "Mutations in the autoregulatory domain of β-tubulin 4a cause hereditary dystonia". Ann. Neurol. 73: 546–553. doi:10.1002/ana.23832. PMC 3698699. PMID 23424103.
  6. Online 'Mendelian Inheritance in Man' (OMIM) Dystonia 4, torsion, autosomal dominant; DYT4 -128101
  7. Simons C, Wolf NI, McNeil N, Caldovic L, Devaney JM, Takanohashi A, Crawford J, Ru K, Grimmond SM, Miller D, Tonduti D, Schmidt JL, Chudnow RS, van Coster R, Lagae L, Kisler J, Sperner J, van der Knaap MS, Schiffmann R, Taft RJ, Vanderver A (May 2013). "A de novo mutation in the β-tubulin gene TUBB4A results in the leukoencephalopathy hypomyelination with atrophy of the basal ganglia and cerebellum". Am. J. Hum. Genet. 92 (5): 767–73. doi:10.1016/j.ajhg.2013.03.018. PMID 23582646.
  8. Online 'Mendelian Inheritance in Man' (OMIM) Leukodystrophy, hypomyelinating, with atrophy of the basal ganglia and cerebellum; HABC -128101
  9. Shimojima, K; Okumura, A; Ikeno, M; Nishimura, A; Saito, A; Saitsu, H; Matsumoto, N; Yamamoto, T (2014). "A de novo TUBB4A mutation in a patient with hypomyelination mimicking Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease". Brain & development 37: 281–5. doi:10.1016/j.braindev.2014.05.004. PMID 24974158.

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