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Homo sapiens Gene: DES
Summary
InnateDB Gene IDBG-81709.6
Last Modified 2014-10-13 [Report errors or provide feedback]
Gene Symbol DES
Gene Name desmin
Synonyms CSM1; CSM2; LGMD2R
Species Homo sapiens
Ensembl Gene ENSG00000175084
Encoded Proteins
IDBP-81711
desmin
Protein Structure
Useful resources Stemformatics EHFPI ImmGen
Entrez Gene
Summary This gene encodes a muscle-specific class III intermediate filament. Homopolymers of this protein form a stable intracytoplasmic filamentous network connecting myofibrils to each other and to the plasma membrane. Mutations in this gene are associated with desmin-related myopathy, a familial cardiac and skeletal myopathy (CSM), and with distal myopathies. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]
Gene Information
Type Protein coding
Genomic Location Chromosome 2:219418377-219426739
Strand Forward strand
Band q35
Transcripts
ENST00000373960 ENSP00000363071
ENST00000477226
ENST00000492726
ENST00000483395
Interactions
Number of Interactions This gene and/or its encoded proteins are associated with 43 experimentally validated interaction(s) in this database.
They are also associated with 5 interaction(s) predicted by orthology.
Experimentally validated
Total 43 [view]
Protein-Protein 43 [view]
Protein-DNA 0
Protein-RNA 0
DNA-DNA 0
RNA-RNA 0
DNA-RNA 0
Predicted by orthology
Total 5 [view]
Gene Ontology

Molecular Function
Accession GO Term
GO:0005198 structural molecule activity
GO:0005200 structural constituent of cytoskeleton
GO:0005515 protein binding
GO:0008092 cytoskeletal protein binding
GO:0042802 identical protein binding
Biological Process
GO:0006936 muscle contraction
GO:0007010 cytoskeleton organization
GO:0008016 regulation of heart contraction
GO:0030049 muscle filament sliding
Cellular Component
GO:0005622 intracellular
GO:0005737 cytoplasm
GO:0005829 cytosol
GO:0005856 cytoskeleton
GO:0005882 intermediate filament
GO:0005916 fascia adherens
GO:0030018 Z disc
GO:0031594 neuromuscular junction
GO:0042383 sarcolemma
GO:0043292 contractile fiber
Orthologs
Species
Mus musculus
Bos taurus
Gene ID
Gene Order
ENSMUSG00000026208
View Gene Order
ENSBTAG00000005353
Not yet available
Pathways
NETPATH
REACTOME
REACT_16969
Striated Muscle Contraction pathway
REACT_17044
Muscle contraction pathway
KEGG
hsa05412
Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC) pathway
hsa05410
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) pathway
hsa05414
Dilated cardiomyopathy pathway
INOH
PID NCI
aurora_b_pathway
Aurora B signaling
Cross-References
SwissProt
TrEMBL
UniProt Splice Variant
Entrez Gene
UniGene Hs.732703
RefSeq NM_001927
HUGO
OMIM
CCDS CCDS33383
HPRD 00514
IMGT
EMBL
GenPept
RNA Seq Atlas

If you use InnateDB for your research, please cite the following publication:

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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