ACTL7A

The protein encoded by this gene is a member of a family of actin-related proteins (ARPs) which share significant amino acid sequence identity to conventional actins. Both actins and ARPs have an actin fold, which is an ATP-binding cleft, as a common feature. The ARPs are involved in diverse cellular processes, including vesicular transport, spindle orientation, nuclear migration and chromatin remodeling. This gene (ACTL7A), and related gene, ACTL7B, are intronless, and are located approximately 4 kb apart in a head-to-head orientation within the familial dysautonomia candidate region on 9q31. Based on mutational analysis of the ACTL7A gene in patients with this disorder, it was concluded that it is unlikely to be involved in the pathogenesis of dysautonomia. The ACTL7A gene is expressed in a wide variety of adult tissues, however, its exact function is not known. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]

Description

Actin like 7A

Tissue specificity

Tissue enriched (testis)

Predicted location

Intracellular

Protein family

Mapped to neXtProt
Mapped to UniProt SWISS-PROT
Predicted intracellular proteins
Protein evidence (Kim et al 2014)

Chromosome

9 (108862266 - 108863756)

Ensembl ID

ENSG00000187003  (ver. 103.38)

Orthologs

Mouse Actl7a: ENSMUSG00000070979

UniProt

Q9Y615

neXtProt

NX_Q9Y615

Human splice variants
Mouse splice variants

Protein structure