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Facts about Trichohyalin.
It can serve as scaffold protein, together with involucrin, in the organization of the cell envelope or even anchor the cell envelope to the KIF network. It can be involved in its calcium-dependent postsynthetic processing during terminal differentiation.
Human | |
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Gene Name: | TCHH |
Uniprot: | Q07283 |
Entrez: | 7062 |
Belongs to: |
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S100-fused protein family |
Trichohyalin
Mass (kDA):
253.925 kDA
Human | |
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Location: | 1q21.3 |
Sequence: | 1; NC_000001.11 (152106317..152115454, complement) |
Found in the hard keratinizing tissues such as the inner root sheath (IRS) of hair follicles and medulla, and in the filiform papillae of dorsal tongue epithelium.
PMID: 7685034 by Lee S.-C., et al. The structure of human trichohyalin. Potential multiple roles as a functional EF-hand-like calcium-binding protein, a cornified cell envelope precursor, and an intermediate filament-associated (cross- linking) protein.
PMID: 7686953 by O'Keefe E.J., et al. Trichohyalin: a structural protein of hair, tongue, nail, and epidermis.