HOXC5

Homeobox protein Hox-C5 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the HOXC5 gene.[5][6][7]

HOXC5
Identifiers
AliasesHOXC5, CP11, HOX3, HOX3D, homeobox C5
External IDsOMIM: 142973 MGI: 96196 HomoloGene: 41296 GeneCards: HOXC5
Orthologs
SpeciesHumanMouse
Entrez

3222

15424

Ensembl

ENSG00000172789

ENSMUSG00000022485

UniProt

Q00444

P32043

RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_018953

NM_175730

RefSeq (protein)

NP_061826

NP_783857

Location (UCSC)Chr 12: 54.03 – 54.04 MbChr 15: 102.88 – 102.93 Mb
PubMed search[3][4]
Wikidata
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Function

This gene belongs to the homeobox family of genes. The homeobox genes encode a highly conserved family of transcription factors that play an important role in morphogenesis in all multicellular organisms. Mammals possess four similar homeobox gene clusters, HOXA, HOXB, HOXC and HOXD, which are located on different chromosomes and consist of 9 to 11 genes arranged in tandem. This gene, HOXC5, is one of several homeobox HOXC genes located in a cluster on chromosome 12. Three genes, HOXC5, HOXC4 and HOXC6, share a 5' non-coding exon. Transcripts may include the shared exon spliced to the gene-specific exons, or they may include only the gene-specific exons. Two alternatively spliced variants have been described for HOXC5. The transcript variant which includes the shared exon apparently doesn't encode a protein. The protein-coding transcript variant contains gene-specific exons only.[7]

References

  1. GRCh38: Ensembl release 89: ENSG00000172789 - Ensembl, May 2017
  2. GRCm38: Ensembl release 89: ENSMUSG00000022485 - Ensembl, May 2017
  3. "Human PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
  4. "Mouse PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
  5. McAlpine PJ, Shows TB (Jul 1990). "Nomenclature for human homeobox genes". Genomics. 7 (3): 460. doi:10.1016/0888-7543(90)90186-X. PMID 1973146.
  6. Scott MP (Nov 1992). "Vertebrate homeobox gene nomenclature". Cell. 71 (4): 551–3. doi:10.1016/0092-8674(92)90588-4. PMID 1358459. S2CID 13370372.
  7. "Entrez Gene: HOXC5 homeobox C5".

Further reading

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