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KRT79
Identifiers
Aliases	KRT79, K6L, KRT6L, keratin 79
External IDs	OMIM: 611160; MGI: 2385030; HomoloGene: 89169; GeneCards: KRT79; OMA:KRT79 - orthologs
Gene location (Human) Chr. Chromosome 12 (human) Band 12q13.13 Start 52,821,408 bp End 52,834,311 bp
Gene location (Mouse) Chr. Chromosome 15 (mouse) Band 15|15 F2 Start 101,837,767 bp End 101,848,759 bp
RNA expression pattern Bgee Human Mouse (ortholog) Top expressed in skin of thigh vulva skin of abdomen nipple subcutaneous adipose tissue mammary gland lactiferous gland upper lobe of left lung right lung islet of Langerhans Top expressed in lip skin of external ear skin of back right lung lobe mucous cell of stomach skin of abdomen sexually immature organism epidermis conjunctival fornix embryo More reference expression data BioGPS n/a
Gene ontology Molecular function enzyme binding protein binding structural molecule activity Cellular component keratin filament extracellular exosome intermediate filament cytosol Biological process keratinization cornification Sources:Amigo / QuickGO
Orthologs Species Human Mouse Entrez 338785 223917 Ensembl ENSG00000185640 ENSMUSG00000061397 UniProt Q5XKE5 Q8VED5 RefSeq (mRNA) NM_175834 NM_146063 RefSeq (protein) NP_787028 NP_666175 Location (UCSC) Chr 12: 52.82 – 52.83 Mb Chr 15: 101.84 – 101.85 Mb PubMed search
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Keratin 79 also known as KRT79 is a protein which humans is encoded by the KRT79 gene.

Function

Keratins, such as KRT79, are filament proteins that make up one of the major structural fibers of epithelial cells

References

1. ^ GRCh38: Ensembl release 89: ENSG00000185640 – Ensembl, May 2017
2. ^ GRCm38: Ensembl release 89: ENSMUSG00000061397 – 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. Hesse M, Magin TM, Weber K (July 2001). "Genes for intermediate filament proteins and the draft sequence of the human genome: novel keratin genes and a surprisingly high number of pseudogenes related to keratin genes 8 and 18". J. Cell Sci. 114 (Pt 14): 2569–75. doi:10.1242/jcs.114.14.2569. PMID 11683385.
6. "Entrez Gene: KRT79 keratin 79".
7. Rogers MA, Edler L, Winter H, Langbein L, Beckmann I, Schweizer J (March 2005). "Characterization of new members of the human type II keratin gene family and a general evaluation of the keratin gene domain on chromosome 12q13.13". J. Invest. Dermatol. 124 (3): 536–44. doi:10.1111/j.0022-202X.2004.23530.x. PMID 15737194.

Further reading

• Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH, et al. (2002). "Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99 (26): 16899–903. Bibcode:2002PNAS...9916899M. doi:10.1073/pnas.242603899. PMC 139241. PMID 12477932.
• Sowa ME, Bennett EJ, Gygi SP, Harper JW (2009). "Defining the human deubiquitinating enzyme interaction landscape". Cell. 138 (2): 389–403. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2009.04.042. PMC 2716422. PMID 19615732.

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