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Facts about Unconventional myosin-XVIIIb.
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Human | |
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Gene Name: | MYO18B |
Uniprot: | Q8IUG5 |
Entrez: | 84700 |
Belongs to: |
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TRAFAC class myosin-kinesin ATPase superfamily |
Unconventional myosin-XVIIIb
Mass (kDA):
285.215 kDA
Human | |
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Location: | 22q12.1 |
Sequence: | 22; NC_000022.11 (25742133..26063847) |
Selectively expressed in cardiac and skeletal muscles. Weakly expressed in testis, pancreas, placenta, prostate, lung and thymus.
Cytoplasm. Nucleus. Cytoplasm, myofibril, sarcomere. Punctate pattern in undifferentiated myoblasts. Nuclear, on primary cardiomyocytes and adult muscle. A partial sarcomeric location was found in some cardiomyocytes.
PMID: 12209013 by Nishioka M., et al. MYO18B, a candidate tumor suppressor gene at chromosome 22q12.1, deleted, mutated, and methylated in human lung cancer.
PMID: 12547197 by Salamon M., et al. Human MYO18B, a novel unconventional myosin heavy chain expressed in striated muscles moves into the myonuclei upon differentiation.