TECTA

For Tecta, a brand of a proton pump inhibitor drug, see Pantoprazole.
TECTA
Identifiers
Aliases TECTA, DFNA12, DFNA8, DFNB21, tectorin alpha
External IDs MGI: 109575 HomoloGene: 3955 GeneCards: TECTA
RNA expression pattern
More reference expression data
Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez

7007

21683

Ensembl

ENSG00000109927

ENSMUSG00000037705

UniProt

O75443

O08523

RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_005422

NM_009347
NM_001324548

RefSeq (protein)

NP_005413.2

NP_033373.2

Location (UCSC) Chr 11: 121.1 – 121.19 Mb Chr 9: 42.33 – 42.4 Mb
PubMed search [1] [2]
Wikidata
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Alpha-tectorin is a protein that in humans is encoded by the TECTA gene.[3][4][5]

The tectorial membrane is an extracellular matrix of the inner ear that contacts the stereocilia bundles of specialized sensory hair cells. Sound induces movement of these hair cells relative to the tectorial membrane, deflects the stereocilia, and leads to fluctuations in hair-cell membrane potential, transducing sound into electrical signals. Alpha-tectorin is one of the major noncollagenous components of the tectorial membrane. Mutations in the TECTA gene have been shown to be responsible for autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing impairment and a recessive form of sensorineural pre-lingual non-syndromic deafness.[5]

References

  1. "Human PubMed Reference:".
  2. "Mouse PubMed Reference:".
  3. Hughes DC, Legan PK, Steel KP, Richardson GP (Apr 1998). "Mapping of the alpha-tectorin gene (TECTA) to mouse chromosome 9 and human chromosome 11: a candidate for human autosomal dominant nonsyndromic deafness". Genomics. 48 (1): 46–51. doi:10.1006/geno.1997.5159. PMID 9503015.
  4. Verhoeven K, Van Laer L, Kirschhofer K, Legan PK, Hughes DC, Schatteman I, Verstreken M, Van Hauwe P, Coucke P, Chen A, Smith RJ, Somers T, Offeciers FE, Van de Heyning P, Richardson GP, Wachtler F, Kimberling WJ, Willems PJ, Govaerts PJ, Van Camp G (May 1998). "Mutations in the human alpha-tectorin gene cause autosomal dominant non-syndromic hearing impairment". Nat Genet. 19 (1): 60–2. doi:10.1038/ng0598-60. PMID 9590290.
  5. 1 2 "Entrez Gene: TECTA tectorin alpha".

Further reading


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