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Homo sapiens Protein: ASCL4
Summary
InnateDB Protein IDBP-55238.6
Last Modified 2014-10-13 [Report errors or provide feedback]
Gene Symbol ASCL4
Protein Name achaete-scute complex homolog 4 (Drosophila)
Synonyms
Species Homo sapiens
Ensembl Protein ENSP00000345420
InnateDB Gene IDBG-55236 (ASCL4)
Protein Structure
UniProt Annotation
Function Could be a transcriptional regulator involved in skin development. {ECO:0000269PubMed:15475265}.
Subcellular Localization Nucleus {ECO:0000255PROSITE- ProRule:PRU00981}.
Disease Associations
Tissue Specificity Expressed in skin. 7-fold higher expression in fetal skin than in adult skin. Weak expression also detected in fetal lung, aorta and brain, and in adult stomach, kidney, ovary and breast. {ECO:0000269PubMed:15475265}.
Comments
Interactions
Number of Interactions This gene and/or its encoded proteins are associated with 1 experimentally validated interaction(s) in this database.
Experimentally validated
Total 1 [view]
Protein-Protein 1 [view]
Protein-DNA 0
Protein-RNA 0
DNA-DNA 0
RNA-RNA 0
DNA-RNA 0
Gene Ontology

Molecular Function
Accession GO Term
GO:0003677 DNA binding
GO:0046983 protein dimerization activity
Biological Process
GO:0006351 transcription, DNA-templated
GO:0006357 regulation of transcription from RNA polymerase II promoter
GO:0043588 skin development
Cellular Component
GO:0005575 cellular_component
GO:0005634 nucleus
Protein Structure and Domains
PDB ID
InterPro IPR011598 Myc-type, basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) domain
PFAM PF00010
PRINTS
PIRSF
SMART SM00353
TIGRFAMs
Post-translational Modifications
Modification
Cross-References
SwissProt Q6XD76
PhosphoSite PhosphoSite-
TrEMBL
UniProt Splice Variant
Entrez Gene 121549
UniGene Hs.149910
RefSeq NP_982260
HUGO HGNC:24311
OMIM 609155
CCDS CCDS31894
HPRD 12374
IMGT
EMBL AC007622 AY238895 BC128211 BC128212 BK000275
GenPept AAI28212 AAI28213 AAP69222 DAA01055

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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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