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Facts about Dynein regulatory complex subunit 4.
Plays dual roles at both the primary (or non-motile) cilia to modulate hedgehog signaling and in motile cilia to coordinate cilia movement. Required for proper motile cilia functioning (PubMed:26387594, PubMed:27120127, PubMed:27472056).
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Gene Name: | GAS8 |
Uniprot: | O95995 |
Entrez: | 2622 |
Belongs to: |
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DRC4 family |
GAS-11; GAS11MGC138326; GAS-8; growth arrest specific 11; growth arrest-specific 11; growth arrest-specific 8; Growth arrest-specific protein 11; growth arrest-specific protein 8
Mass (kDA):
56.356 kDA
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Location: | 16q24.3 |
Sequence: | 16; NC_000016.10 (90019629..90044971) |
Expressed in respiratory epithelial cells (at protein level) (PubMed:26387594). Expressed in the heart, skeletal muscle, pancreas, liver, brain, trachea and lung. Weakly or not expressed in placenta and kidney (PubMed:9790751).
Cytoplasm. Cytoplasm, cytoskeleton. Cell projection, cilium, flagellum. Cytoplasm, cytoskeleton, cilium axoneme. Cytoplasm, cytoskeleton, cilium basal body. Golgi apparatus. Cell projection, cilium. Cytoplasm, cytoskeleton, flagellum axoneme. Associates with microtubules (PubMed:10969087). Localized to the cytoplasm of round spermatids, the tails of elongating spermatids, and mature spermatid tail bundles protruding into the lumen, and in the flagellum of epididymal spermatozoa (By similarity).
PMID: 9790751 by Whitmore S.A., et al. Characterization and screening for mutations of the growth arrest- specific 11 (GAS11) and C16orf3 genes at 16q24.3 in breast cancer.
PMID: 10969087 by Hill K.L., et al. T lymphocyte-triggering factor of African trypanosomes is associated with the flagellar fraction of the cytoskeleton and represents a new family of proteins that are present in several divergent eukaryotes.