PCDHA6

PCDHA6
Identifiers
Aliases	PCDHA6, CNR2, CNRN2, CNRS2, CRNR2, PCDH-ALPHA6, protocadherin alpha 6
External IDs	OMIM: 606312 MGI: 1298367 HomoloGene: 75098 GeneCards: PCDHA6
Gene location (Human)
Chr.	Chromosome 5 (human)
End	141,012,347 bp
Gene location (Mouse)
Chr.	Chromosome 18 (mouse)
End	37,320,710 bp
RNA expression pattern
	Top expressed in
	islet of Langerhans; ; prefrontal cortex; ; ganglionic eminence; ; cerebellar cortex; ; cerebellar hemisphere; ; Brodmann area 9; ; anterior pituitary; ; hypothalamus; ; nucleus accumbens; ; smooth muscle tissue;
	Top expressed in
	granular layer; ; Purkinje cell; ; Region I of hippocampus proper; ; hippocampus proper; ; neural tube; ; hypothalamus; ; superior frontal gyrus; ; mesencephalon; ; ganglionic eminence; ; lens;
	More reference expression data
	More reference expression data
Gene ontology
Molecular function	calcium ion binding;
Cellular component	integral component of membrane; extracellular region; plasma membrane; integral component of plasma membrane; membrane;
Biological process	cell adhesion; nervous system development; homophilic cell adhesion via plasma membrane adhesion molecules; cell-cell signaling;
	Sources:Amigo / QuickGO
Orthologs
	56142
	12937
	ENSG00000081842
	ENSMUSG00000103707
	Q9UN73
	n/a
	NM_031849; NM_018909; NM_031848
	NM_007767
	NP_061732; NP_114036; NP_114037
	n/a
	Wikidata
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Protocadherin alpha-6 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the PCDHA6 gene.^[5]^[6]^[7]

This gene is a member of the protocadherin alpha gene cluster, one of three related gene clusters tandemly linked on chromosome five that demonstrate an unusual genomic organization similar to that of B-cell and T-cell receptor gene clusters. The alpha gene cluster is composed of 15 cadherin superfamily genes related to the mouse CNR genes and consists of 13 highly similar and 2 more distantly related coding sequences. The tandem array of 15 N-terminal exons, or variable exons, are followed by downstream C-terminal exons, or constant exons, which are shared by all genes in the cluster. The large, uninterrupted N-terminal exons each encode six cadherin ectodomains while the C-terminal exons encode the cytoplasmic domain. These neural cadherin-like cell adhesion proteins are integral plasma membrane proteins that most likely play a critical role in the establishment and function of specific cell-cell connections in the brain. Alternative splicing has been observed and additional variants have been suggested but their full-length nature has yet to be determined.^[7]

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b ^c GRCh38: Ensembl release 89: ENSG00000081842 – Ensembl, May 2017
^ ^a ^b ^c GRCm38: Ensembl release 89: ENSMUSG00000103707 – Ensembl, May 2017
^ "Human PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
^ "Mouse PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
^ Wu Q, Maniatis T (Jul 1999). "A striking organization of a large family of human neural cadherin-like cell adhesion genes". Cell. 97 (6): 779–90. doi:10.1016/S0092-8674(00)80789-8. PMID 10380929. S2CID 6014717.
^ Sugino H, Hamada S, Yasuda R, Tuji A, Matsuda Y, Fujita M, Yagi T (Apr 2000). "Genomic organization of the family of CNR cadherin genes in mice and humans". Genomics. 63 (1): 75–87. doi:10.1006/geno.1999.6066. PMID 10662547.
^ ^a ^b "Entrez Gene: PCDHA6 protocadherin alpha 6".

Further reading[edit]

Yagi T, Takeichi M (2000). "Cadherin superfamily genes: functions, genomic organization, and neurologic diversity". Genes Dev. 14 (10): 1169–80. doi:10.1101/gad.14.10.1169. PMID 10817752. S2CID 44844497.
Nollet F, Kools P, van Roy F (2000). "Phylogenetic analysis of the cadherin superfamily allows identification of six major subfamilies besides several solitary members". J. Mol. Biol. 299 (3): 551–72. doi:10.1006/jmbi.2000.3777. PMID 10835267.
Senzaki K, Ogawa M, Yagi T (2000). "Proteins of the CNR family are multiple receptors for Reelin". Cell. 99 (6): 635–47. doi:10.1016/S0092-8674(00)81552-4. PMID 10612399. S2CID 14277878.
Wu Q, Maniatis T (2000). "Large exons encoding multiple ectodomains are a characteristic feature of protocadherin genes". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 97 (7): 3124–9. Bibcode:2000PNAS...97.3124W. doi:10.1073/pnas.060027397. PMC 16203. PMID 10716726.
Wu Q, Zhang T, Cheng JF, et al. (2001). "Comparative DNA Sequence Analysis of Mouse and Human Protocadherin Gene Clusters". Genome Res. 11 (3): 389–404. doi:10.1101/gr.167301. PMC 311048. PMID 11230163.
Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH, et al. (2003). "Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99 (26): 16899–903. Bibcode:2002PNAS...9916899M. doi:10.1073/pnas.242603899. PMC 139241. PMID 12477932.
Schmutz J, Martin J, Terry A, et al. (2004). "The DNA sequence and comparative analysis of human chromosome 5". Nature. 431 (7006): 268–74. Bibcode:2004Natur.431..268S. doi:10.1038/nature02919. PMID 15372022. S2CID 4373053.
Gerhard DS, Wagner L, Feingold EA, et al. (2004). "The Status, Quality, and Expansion of the NIH Full-Length cDNA Project: The Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC)". Genome Res. 14 (10B): 2121–7. doi:10.1101/gr.2596504. PMC 528928. PMID 15489334.

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[refGRCh38Ensembl-1] GRCh38: Ensembl release 89: ENSG00000081842 – Ensembl, May 2017

[refGRCm38Ensembl-2] GRCm38: Ensembl release 89: ENSMUSG00000103707 – Ensembl, May 2017

[3] "Human PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.

[4] "Mouse PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.

[pmid10380929-5] Wu Q, Maniatis T (Jul 1999). "A striking organization of a large family of human neural cadherin-like cell adhesion genes". Cell. 97 (6): 779–90. doi:10.1016/S0092-8674(00)80789-8. PMID 10380929. S2CID 6014717.

[pmid10662547-6] Sugino H, Hamada S, Yasuda R, Tuji A, Matsuda Y, Fujita M, Yagi T (Apr 2000). "Genomic organization of the family of CNR cadherin genes in mice and humans". Genomics. 63 (1): 75–87. doi:10.1006/geno.1999.6066. PMID 10662547.

[entrez-7] "Entrez Gene: PCDHA6 protocadherin alpha 6".

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