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Facts about Keratin, type II cytoskeletal 74.
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Human | |
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Gene Name: | KRT74 |
Uniprot: | Q7RTS7 |
Entrez: | 121391 |
Belongs to: |
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intermediate filament family |
HTSS2; K6IRS4; KRT5C; KRT6IRS4; KRT74 keratin 74
Mass (kDA):
57.865 kDA
Human | |
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Location: | 12q13.13 |
Sequence: | 12; NC_000012.12 (52565782..52573843, complement) |
Highly expressed in hair follicles from scalp. In hair, it is specifically present in the inner root sheath (IRS) of the hair follicle. Present in the IRS Huxley layer, but not in Henle layer or cuticle of the IRS. In the IRS Huxley layer, it is expressed in specialized Huxley cells, termed 'Fluegelzellen, along the area of differentiated Henle cells (at protein level).
PMID: 12648212 by Langbein L., et al. K6irs1, K6irs2, K6irs3, and K6irs4 represent the inner-root-sheath- specific type II epithelial keratins of the human hair follicle.
PMID: 11683385 by Hesse M., et al. 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.