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Mus musculus Gene: Piwil4
Summary
InnateDB Gene IDBG-134536.6
Last Modified 2014-10-13 [Report errors or provide feedback]
Gene Symbol Piwil4
Gene Name piwi-like homolog 4 (Drosophila)
Synonyms
Species Mus musculus
Ensembl Gene ENSMUSG00000036912
Encoded Proteins
IDBP-134540
piwi-like homolog 4 (Drosophila)
IDBP-249181
piwi-like homolog 4 (Drosophila)
IDBP-249183
piwi-like homolog 4 (Drosophila)
IDBP-539071
piwi-like homolog 4 (Drosophila)
Protein Structure
Useful resources Stemformatics EHFPI ImmGen
Entrez Gene
Summary This gene does not have any Entrez summary - the following is the summary from its human ortholog ENSG00000134627:
PIWIL4 belongs to the Argonaute family of proteins, which function in development and maintenance of germline stem cells (Sasaki et al., 2003 [PubMed 12906857]).[supplied by OMIM, Mar 2008]
Gene Information
Type Protein coding
Genomic Location Chromosome 9:14696230-14740733
Strand Reverse strand
Band A2
Transcripts
ENSMUST00000076946 ENSMUSP00000076213
ENSMUST00000115644 ENSMUSP00000111308
ENSMUST00000115643 ENSMUSP00000111307
ENSMUST00000136399 ENSMUSP00000120851
Interactions
Number of Interactions This gene and/or its encoded proteins are associated with 0 experimentally validated interaction(s) in this database.
They are also associated with 4 interaction(s) predicted by orthology.
Predicted by orthology
Total 4 [view]
Gene Ontology

Molecular Function
Accession GO Term
GO:0003676 nucleic acid binding
GO:0005515 protein binding
GO:0034584 piRNA binding
Biological Process
GO:0006417 regulation of translation
GO:0007126 meiotic nuclear division
GO:0007275 multicellular organismal development
GO:0007283 spermatogenesis
GO:0030154 cell differentiation
GO:0031047 gene silencing by RNA
GO:0034587 piRNA metabolic process
GO:0043046 DNA methylation involved in gamete generation
Cellular Component
GO:0005634 nucleus
GO:0005737 cytoplasm
GO:0043186 P granule
GO:0071547 piP-body
Orthologs
Species
Homo sapiens
Bos taurus
Gene ID
Gene Order
ENSG00000134627
View Gene Order
ENSBTAG00000014910
Not yet available
Pathways
NETPATH
REACTOME
KEGG
mmu04320
Dorso-ventral axis formation pathway
INOH
PID NCI
Pathway Predictions based on Human Orthology Data
NETPATH
REACTOME
KEGG
hsa04320
Dorso-ventral axis formation pathway
INOH
PID NCI
Cross-References
SwissProt
TrEMBL
UniProt Splice Variant
Entrez Gene 330890
UniGene Mm.334969
RefSeq NM_177905 XM_006510430 XM_006510432
OMIM
CCDS CCDS22824
HPRD
IMGT
MGI ID MGI:3041167
MGI Symbol Piwil4
EMBL
GenPept
RNA Seq Atlas 330890

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Breuer et al., InnateDB: systems biology of innate immunity and beyond - recent updates and continuing curation. Nucl. Acids Res. (2013) 41 (D1) 

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