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Facts about G-protein coupled receptor 143.
Receptor for tyrosine, L-DOPA and dopamine.
After binding to L-DOPA, stimulates Ca(2+) influx into the cytoplasm, increases secretion of the neurotrophic factor SERPINF1 and relocalizes beta arrestin in the plasma membrane; this ligand- dependent signaling occurs through a G(q)-mediated pathway in melanocytic cells.Its action is mediated by G proteins which activate the phosphoinositide signaling pathway. Plays also a role as an intracellular G protein-coupled receptor involved in melanosome biogenesis, organization and transport.
Human | |
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Gene Name: | GPR143 |
Uniprot: | P51810 |
Entrez: | 4935 |
Belongs to: |
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G-protein coupled receptor OA family |
G protein-coupled receptor 143; G-protein coupled receptor 143; NYS6; OA1Ocular albinism type 1 protein; ocular albinism 1 (Nettleship-Falls)
Mass (kDA):
43.878 kDA
Human | |
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Location: | Xp22.2 |
Sequence: | X; NC_000023.11 (9725346..9786260, complement) |
Expressed at high levels in the retina, including the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE), and in melanocytes. Weak expression is observed in brain and adrenal gland.
Melanosome membrane; Multi-pass membrane protein. Lysosome membrane; Multi-pass membrane protein. Apical cell membrane; Multi-pass membrane protein. Distributed throughout the endo-melanosomal system but most of endogenous protein is localized in unpigmented stage II melanosomes. Its expression on the apical cell membrane is sensitive to tyrosine (PubMed:18828673).
PMID: 7647783 by Bassi M.T., et al. Cloning of the gene for ocular albinism type 1 from the distal short arm of the X chromosome.
PMID: 10094567 by Oetting W.S., et al. Molecular basis of albinism: mutations and polymorphisms of pigmentation genes associated with albinism.