PCDHB16

PCDHB16
Identifiers
Aliases	PCDHB16 , ME1, PCDH-BETA16, PCDH3X, PCDHB8a, protocadherin beta 16
External IDs	OMIM: 606345 MGI: 2136754 HomoloGene: 81881 GeneCards: PCDHB16
Gene location (Human) Chr. Chromosome 5 (human) [1] Band 5q31.3 Start 141,182,387 bp [1] End 141,186,226 bp [1]
RNA expression pattern Bgee Top expressed in visceral pleura corpus epididymis prosencephalon endometrium caput epididymis synovial membrane sural nerve female reproductive system left coronary artery More reference expression data BioGPS More reference expression data
Gene ontology Molecular function calcium ion binding Cellular component integral component of membrane plasma membrane membrane integral component of plasma membrane Biological process calcium-dependent cell-cell adhesion via plasma membrane cell adhesion molecules Synaptogenesis homophilic cell adhesion via plasma membrane adhesion molecules chemical synaptic transmission cell adhesion Sources:Amigo / QuickGO
Orthologs
Species	Human	Mouse
Entrez	57717	93888
Ensembl	ENSG00000272674	ENSMUSG00000046387
UniProt	Q9NRJ7	Q91VD8
RefSeq (mRNA)	NM_020957	NM_053142
RefSeq (protein)	NP_066008	NP_444372
Location (UCSC)	Chr 5: 141.18 – 141.19 Mb	n/a
PubMed search	[2]	[3]
Wikidata
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Protocadherin beta-16 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the PCDHB16 gene. ^{[4] [5] [6]}

This gene is a member of the protocadherin beta gene cluster, one of three related gene clusters tandemly linked on chromosome five. The gene clusters demonstrate an unusual genomic organization similar to that of B-cell and T-cell receptor gene clusters. The beta cluster contains 16 genes and 3 pseudogenes, each encoding 6 extracellular cadherin domains and a cytoplasmic tail that deviates from others in the cadherin superfamily. The extracellular domains interact in a homophilic manner to specify differential cell-cell connections. Unlike the alpha and gamma clusters, the transcripts from these genes are made up of only one large exon, not sharing common 3' exons as expected. These neural cadherin-like cell adhesion proteins are integral plasma membrane proteins. Their specific functions are unknown but they most likely play a critical role in the establishment and function of specific cell-cell neural connections. ^[6]

References

1. GRCh38: Ensembl release 89: ENSG00000272674 - Ensembl, May 2017
2. "Human PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
3. "Mouse PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
4. Wu Q, Zhang T, Cheng JF, Kim Y, Grimwood J, Schmutz J, Dickson M, Noonan JP, Zhang MQ, Myers RM, Maniatis T (Mar 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.
5. Vanhalst K, Kools P, Vanden Eynde E, van Roy F (Apr 2001). "The human and murine protocadherin-beta one-exon gene families show high evolutionary conservation, despite the difference in gene number". FEBS Lett. 495 (1–2): 120–5. doi: 10.1016/S0014-5793(01)02372-9 . PMID   11322959. S2CID   36671435.
6. "Entrez Gene: PCDHB16 protocadherin beta 16".

Further reading

• 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 (inactive 31 October 2021). PMID   10817752.
• 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.
• Frank M, Kemler R (2003). "Protocadherins". Curr. Opin. Cell Biol. 14 (5): 557–62. doi:10.1016/S0955-0674(02)00365-4. PMID   12231349.
• Matsuyoshi N, Tanaka T, Toda K, Imamura S (1997). "Identification of novel cadherins expressed in human melanoma cells". J. Invest. Dermatol. 108 (6): 908–13. doi:10.1111/1523-1747.ep12292703. PMID   9182820.
• Wu Q, Maniatis T (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.
• 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. doi: 10.1073/pnas.060027397 . PMC   16203 . PMID   10716726.
• Nagase T, Kikuno R, Nakayama M, et al. (2001). "Prediction of the coding sequences of unidentified human genes. XVIII. The complete sequences of 100 new cDNA clones from brain which code for large proteins in vitro". DNA Res. 7 (4): 273–81. doi: 10.1093/dnares/7.4.271 . PMID   10997877.
• 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. doi: 10.1073/pnas.242603899 . PMC   139241 . PMID   12477932.
• Gevaert K, Goethals M, Martens L, et al. (2004). "Exploring proteomes and analyzing protein processing by mass spectrometric identification of sorted N-terminal peptides". Nat. Biotechnol. 21 (5): 566–9. doi:10.1038/nbt810. PMID   12665801. S2CID   23783563.
• 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.