Tubulin alpha-3C/D chain is a protein that in humans is encoded by the TUBA3C gene.[3][4]

TUBA3C
Identifiers
AliasesTUBA3C, TUBA2, bA408E5.3, Alpha-tubulin 3C, tubulin alpha 3c
External IDsOMIM: 602528; HomoloGene: 134742; GeneCards: TUBA3C; OMA:TUBA3C - orthologs
Orthologs
SpeciesHumanMouse
Entrez
Ensembl
UniProt
RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_079836
NM_006001

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RefSeq (protein)

NP_525125
NP_005992

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Location (UCSC)Chr 13: 19.17 – 19.18 Mbn/a
PubMed search[2]n/a
Wikidata
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Function

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Microtubules of the eukaryotic cytoskeleton perform essential and diverse functions and are composed of a heterodimer of alpha and beta tubulin. The genes encoding these microtubule constituents are part of the tubulin superfamily, which is composed of six distinct families. Genes from the alpha, beta and gamma tubulin families are found in all eukaryotes. The alpha and beta tubulins represent the major components of microtubules, while gamma tubulin plays a critical role in the nucleation of microtubule assembly. There are multiple alpha and beta tubulin genes and they are highly conserved among and between species. This gene is an alpha tubulin gene that encodes a protein 99% to the mouse testis-specific Tuba3 and Tuba7 gene products. This gene is located in the 13q11 region, which is associated with the genetic diseases Clouston hidrotic ectodermal dysplasia and Kabuki syndrome. Alternative splicing has been observed for this gene and two variants have been identified.[4]

Interactions

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Alpha-tubulin 3C has been shown to interact with FYN[5] and NMI.[6]

References

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  1. ^ a b c GRCh38: Ensembl release 89: ENSG00000198033Ensembl, May 2017
  2. ^ "Human PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
  3. ^ Dodé C, Weil D, Levilliers J, Crozet F, Chaïb H, Levi-Acobas F, Guilford P, Petit C (Jan 1998). "Sequence characterization of a newly identified human alpha-tubulin gene (TUBA2)". Genomics. 47 (1): 125–30. doi:10.1006/geno.1997.5081. PMID 9465305.
  4. ^ a b "Entrez Gene: TUBA3C tubulin, alpha 3c".
  5. ^ Klein C, Kramer EM, Cardine AM, Schraven B, Brandt R, Trotter J (Feb 2002). "Process outgrowth of oligodendrocytes is promoted by interaction of fyn kinase with the cytoskeletal protein tau". The Journal of Neuroscience. 22 (3): 698–707. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.22-03-00698.2002. PMC 6758498. PMID 11826099.
  6. ^ Rual JF, Venkatesan K, Hao T, Hirozane-Kishikawa T, Dricot A, Li N, Berriz GF, Gibbons FD, Dreze M, Ayivi-Guedehoussou N, Klitgord N, Simon C, Boxem M, Milstein S, Rosenberg J, Goldberg DS, Zhang LV, Wong SL, Franklin G, Li S, Albala JS, Lim J, Fraughton C, Llamosas E, Cevik S, Bex C, Lamesch P, Sikorski RS, Vandenhaute J, Zoghbi HY, Smolyar A, Bosak S, Sequerra R, Doucette-Stamm L, Cusick ME, Hill DE, Roth FP, Vidal M (Oct 2005). "Towards a proteome-scale map of the human protein-protein interaction network". Nature. 437 (7062): 1173–8. Bibcode:2005Natur.437.1173R. doi:10.1038/nature04209. PMID 16189514. S2CID 4427026.
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