mu Crystallin Products

Description

Crystallins are separated into two classes: taxon-specific and ubiquitous. The former class is also called phylogenetically-restricted crystallins. The latter class constitutes the major proteins of vertebrate eye lens and maintains the transparency and refractive index of the lens. This gene encodes a taxon-specific crystallin protein that binds NADPH and has sequence similarity to bacterial ornithine cyclodeaminases. The encoded protein does not perform a structural role in lens tissue, and instead it binds thyroid hormone for possible regulatory or developmental roles. Multiple alternatively spliced transcript variants have been found for this gene. [provided by RefSeq]

Bioinformatics

Entrez	1428 Human
Uniprot	NP_001879 Human
Product By Gene ID	1428
Alternate Names	crystallin, mu DFNA40NADP-regulated thyroid-hormone binding protein mu-crystallin homolog NADP-regulated thyroid-hormone-binding protein THBP

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