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Facts about Titin.
The size and extensibility of the cross-links are the chief determinants of sarcomere extensibility properties of muscle. In non-muscle cells, seems to play a role in chromosome condensation and chromosome segregation during mitosis.
Human | |
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Gene Name: | TTN |
Uniprot: | Q8WZ42 |
Entrez: | 7273 |
Belongs to: |
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protein kinase superfamily |
cardiomyopathy, dilated 1G (autosomal dominant); CMD1G; CMH9; CMPD4; connectin; DKFZp451N061; EC 2.7.11.1; EOMFC; FLJ32040; FLJ34413; FLJ39564; FLJ43066; HMERF; LGMD2JFLJ26020; MPRM; Rhabdomyosarcoma antigen MU-RMS-40.14; titin; TMDFLJ26409
Mass (kDA):
3816.03 kDA
Human | |
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Location: | 2q31.2 |
Sequence: | 2; NC_000002.12 (178525989..178807423, complement) |
Isoforms 3, 7 and 8 are expressed in cardiac muscle. Isoform 4 is expressed in vertebrate skeletal muscle. Isoform 6 is expressed in skeletal muscle (at protein level).
Cytoplasm. Nucleus.
PMID: 7569978 by Labeit S., et al. Titins, giant proteins in charge of muscle ultrastructure and elasticity.
PMID: 10850961 by Freiburg A., et al. Series of exon-skipping events in the elastic spring region of titin as the structural basis for myofibrillar elastic diversity.