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Facts about Bardet-Biedl syndrome 1 protein.
This ciliogenic function is mediated in part by the Rab8 GDP/GTP market factor, which localizes to the basal body and connections the BBSome. Rab8(GTP) enters the primary cilium and promotes expansion of the ciliary membrane.
Human | |
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Gene Name: | BBS1 |
Uniprot: | Q8NFJ9 |
Entrez: | 582 |
Belongs to: |
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No superfamily |
Bardet-Biedl syndrome 1 protein; Bardet-Biedl syndrome 1; BBS2L2; BBS2-like protein 2; FLJ23590; MGC126183; MGC126184; MGC51114
Mass (kDA):
65.083 kDA
Human | |
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Location: | 11q13.2 |
Sequence: | 11; NC_000011.10 (66510635..66533598) |
Highly expressed in the kidney. Also found in fetal tissue, testis, retina, adipose tissue, heart, skeletal muscle and pancreas.
Cell projection, cilium membrane. Cytoplasm. Cytoplasm, cytoskeleton, microtubule organizing center, centrosome, centriolar satellite.
PMID: 12118255 by Mykytyn K., et al. Identification of the gene (BBS1) most commonly involved in Bardet- Biedl syndrome, a complex human obesity syndrome.
PMID: 16327777 by Badano J.L., et al. Dissection of epistasis in oligogenic Bardet-Biedl syndrome.