Protocadherin gamma C3 Products

Description

This gene is a member of the protocadherin gamma gene cluster, one of three related clusters tandemly linked on chromosome five. These gene clusters have an immunoglobulin-like organization, suggesting that a novel mechanism may be involved in their regulation and expression. The gamma gene cluster includes 22 genes divided into 3 subfamilies. Subfamily A contains 12 genes, subfamily B contains 7 genes and 2 pseudogenes, and the more distantly related subfamily C contains 3 genes. The tandem array of 22 large, variable region exons are followed by a constant region, containing 3 exons shared by all genes in the cluster. Each variable region exon encodes the extracellular region, which includes 6 cadherin ectodomains and a transmembrane region. The constant region exons encode the common cytoplasmic region. These neural cadherin-like cell adhesion proteins most likely play a critical role in the establishment and function of specific cell-cell connections in the brain. Alternative splicing has been described for the gamma cluster genes. [provided by RefSeq]

Bioinformatics

Entrez	5098 Human
Uniprot	NP_002579 Human
Product By Gene ID	5098
Alternate Names	Cadherin-Like 2 PC43 PC-43 PCDH2 PCDH-GAMMA-C3 PCDHGC3 protocadherin 2 Protocadherin 43 Protocadherin gamma C3 protocadherin gamma subfamily C, 3 protocadherin gamma-C3 Protocadherin-2 protocadherin-43

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