HOXC5

HOXC5
Identifiers
Aliases HOXC5, CP11, HOX3, HOX3D, homeobox C5
External IDs MGI: 96196 HomoloGene: 41296 GeneCards: HOXC5
RNA expression pattern
More reference expression data
Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez

3222

15424

Ensembl

ENSG00000172789

ENSMUSG00000022485

UniProt

Q00444

P32043

RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_018953

NM_175730

RefSeq (protein)

NP_061826.1

NP_783857.1

Location (UCSC) Chr 12: 54.03 – 54.04 Mb Chr 15: 102.97 – 103.02 Mb
PubMed search [1] [2]
Wikidata
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Homeobox protein Hox-C5 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the HOXC5 gene.[3][4][5]

Function

This gene belongs to the homeobox family of genes. The homeobox genes encode a highly conserved family of transcription factors that play an important role in morphogenesis in all multicellular organisms. Mammals possess four similar homeobox gene clusters, HOXA, HOXB, HOXC and HOXD, which are located on different chromosomes and consist of 9 to 11 genes arranged in tandem. This gene, HOXC5, is one of several homeobox HOXC genes located in a cluster on chromosome 12. Three genes, HOXC5, HOXC4 and HOXC6, share a 5' non-coding exon. Transcripts may include the shared exon spliced to the gene-specific exons, or they may include only the gene-specific exons. Two alternatively spliced variants have been described for HOXC5. The transcript variant which includes the shared exon apparently doesn't encode a protein. The protein-coding transcript variant contains gene-specific exons only.[5]

References

  1. "Human PubMed Reference:".
  2. "Mouse PubMed Reference:".
  3. McAlpine PJ, Shows TB (Jul 1990). "Nomenclature for human homeobox genes". Genomics. 7 (3): 460. doi:10.1016/0888-7543(90)90186-X. PMID 1973146.
  4. Scott MP (Nov 1992). "Vertebrate homeobox gene nomenclature". Cell. 71 (4): 551–3. doi:10.1016/0092-8674(92)90588-4. PMID 1358459.
  5. 1 2 "Entrez Gene: HOXC5 homeobox C5".

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