EQTN

EQTN
Identifiers
Aliases	EQTN , AFAF, C9orf11, SPACA8, equatorin
External IDs	OMIM: 617653 MGI: 1915003 HomoloGene: 75250 GeneCards: EQTN
Gene location (Mouse)
Chr.	Chromosome 4 (mouse)
End	94,817,080 bp
RNA expression pattern
	Top expressed in
	sperm; ; corpus callosum; ; gastric mucosa; ; right lung; ; rectum; ; left uterine tube; ; tibial nerve; ; body of stomach; ; left coronary artery; ; substantia nigra;
	Top expressed in
	spermatid; ; seminiferous tubule; ; spermatocyte; ; superior frontal gyrus; ; upper arm; ; skeletal muscle tissue; ; triceps brachii muscle; ; temporal muscle; ; digastric muscle; ; mirror;
	More reference expression data
	n/a
Orthologs
	54586
	67753
	n/a
	ENSMUSG00000028575
	Q9NQ60
	Q9D9V2
	NM_001161585 ; NM_020641
	NM_001290623 ; NM_027089
	NP_001155057 ; NP_065692
	NP_001277552 ; NP_081365
	Wikidata
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Last updated August 19, 2023

Equatorin, sperm acrosome associated is a protein that in humans is encoded by the EQTN gene.^[4]

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References

1 2 3 GRCm38: Ensembl release 89: ENSMUSG00000028575 - Ensembl, May 2017
↑ "Human PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
↑ "Mouse PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
↑ "Entrez Gene: Equatorin, sperm acrosome associated".

Ruiz A, Pujana MA, Estivill X (December 2000). "Isolation and characterisation of a novel human gene (C9orf11) on chromosome 9p21, a region frequently deleted in human cancer". Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Gene Structure and Expression. 1517 (1): 128–34. doi:10.1016/S0167-4781(00)00272-4. PMID 11118625.
Li YC, Hu XQ, Zhang KY, Guo J, Hu ZY, Tao SX, Xiao LJ, Wang QZ, Han CS, Liu YX (July 2006). "Afaf, a novel vesicle membrane protein, is related to acrosome formation in murine testis". FEBS Letters. 580 (17): 4266–73. doi:10.1016/j.febslet.2006.06.010. PMID 16831425. S2CID 43408857.
Laaksovirta H, Peuralinna T, Schymick JC, Scholz SW, Lai SL, Myllykangas L, Sulkava R, Jansson L, Hernandez DG, Gibbs JR, Nalls MA, Heckerman D, Tienari PJ, Traynor BJ (October 2010). "Chromosome 9p21 in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in Finland: a genome-wide association study". The Lancet. Neurology. 9 (10): 978–85. doi:10.1016/S1474-4422(10)70184-8. PMC 2965392 . PMID 20801718.

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[refGRCm38Ensembl-1] 1 2 3 GRCm38: Ensembl release 89: ENSMUSG00000028575 - 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.

[entrez-4] "Entrez Gene: Equatorin, sperm acrosome associated".

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