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Facts about Unconventional myosin-XV.
Their highly divergent tails are presumed to bind to membranous compartments, which would be moved relative to actin filaments. Required for the arrangement of stereocilia in mature hair bundles (By similarity).
Human | |
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Gene Name: | MYO15A |
Uniprot: | Q9UKN7 |
Entrez: | 51168 |
Belongs to: |
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TRAFAC class myosin-kinesin ATPase superfamily |
DFNB3; DKFZp686N18198; FLJ17274; FLJ31311; MYO15; myosin XVA; myosin-XV; Unconventional myosin-15
Mass (kDA):
395.293 kDA
Human | |
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Location: | 17p11.2 |
Sequence: | 17; NC_000017.11 (18108756..18180244) |
Highly expressed in pituitary. Also expressed at lower levels in adult brain, kidney, liver, lung, pancreas, placenta and skeletal muscle. Not expressed in brain. In the pituitary, highly expressed in anterior gland cells.
Cell projection, stereocilium. Cytoplasm, cytoskeleton. Localizes to stereocilium tips in cochlear and vestibular hair cells.
PMID: 9603736 by Wang A., et al. Association of unconventional myosin MYO15 mutations with human nonsyndromic deafness DFNB3.
PMID: 10552926 by Liang Y., et al. Characterization of the human and mouse unconventional myosin XV genes responsible for hereditary deafness DFNB3 and shaker 2.