Homo sapiens Protein: GJA9
Summary
InnateDB Protein IDBP-96578.6
Last Modified 2014-10-13 [Report errors or provide feedback]
Gene Symbol GJA9
Protein Name gap junction protein, alpha 9, 59kDa
Synonyms
Species Homo sapiens
Ensembl Protein ENSP00000350415
InnateDB Gene IDBG-96574 (GJA9)
Protein Structure
UniProt Annotation
Function One gap junction consists of a cluster of closely packed pairs of transmembrane channels, the connexons, through which materials of low MW diffuse from one cell to a neighboring cell. {ECO:0000250}.
Subcellular Localization Cell membrane {ECO:0000250}; Multi-pass membrane protein {ECO:0000250}. Cell junction, gap junction {ECO:0000250}.
Disease Associations
Tissue Specificity Highly abundant in skeletal muscle. Also detected in testis. {ECO:0000269PubMed:12881038}.
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
Biological Process
GO:0007154 cell communication
Cellular Component
GO:0005922 connexon complex
GO:0016021 integral component of membrane
Protein Structure and Domains
PDB ID
InterPro IPR000500 Connexin
IPR013092 Connexin, N-terminal
IPR019570 Gap junction protein, cysteine-rich domain
PFAM PF00029
PF10582
PRINTS PR00206
PIRSF
SMART SM00037
SM01089
TIGRFAMs
Post-translational Modifications
Modification
Cross-References
SwissProt P57773
PhosphoSite PhosphoSite-
TrEMBL
UniProt Splice Variant
Entrez Gene 81025
UniGene Hs.632402
RefSeq NP_110399
HUGO HGNC:19155
OMIM 611923
CCDS CCDS432
HPRD 13578
IMGT
EMBL AF179597 AF271261 AK123051 AK312811 AL139260 CH471059
GenPept AAG09406 AAK55516 BAG35669 BAG53864 CAI23051 EAX07289