Dymeclin protein family

Dymeclin
Identifiers
Symbol	Dymeclin
Pfam	PF09742
Pfam clan	CL0456
InterPro	IPR019142
Available protein structures: Pfam structures PDB RCSB PDB; PDBe PDBsum structure summary

In molecular biology, the Dymeclin protein family is a family of proteins which includes human Dymeclin. Dymeclin (Dyggve-Melchior-Clausen syndrome protein) contains a large number of leucine and isoleucine residues and a total of 17 repeated dileucine motifs. It is characteristically about 700 amino acids long and present in plants and animals. In humans, mutations in the gene coding for this protein give rise to a disorder called Dyggve-Melchior-Clausen syndrome, which is an autosomal-recessive disorder characterised by the association of spondylo-epi-metaphyseal dysplasia and mental retardation.^[1]

This family of proteins also includes Hid1 (high-temperature-induced dauer-formation protein 1) from Caenorhabditis elegans which encodes a novel highly conserved putative transmembrane protein expressed in neurons.^[2] It contains up to seven potential transmembrane domains separated by regions of low complexity. Functionally this protein might be involved in vesicle secretion or be an inter-cellular signalling protein or be a novel insulin receptor.^[2]

References

1. ^ El Ghouzzi V, Dagoneau N, Kinning E, Thauvin-Robinet C, Chemaitilly W, Prost-Squarcioni C, Al-Gazali LI, Verloes A, Le Merrer M, Munnich A, Trembath RC, Cormier-Daire V (February 2003). "Mutations in a novel gene Dymeclin (FLJ20071) are responsible for Dyggve-Melchior-Clausen syndrome". Hum. Mol. Genet. 12 (3): 357–64. doi:10.1093/hmg/ddg029. PMID 12554689. 
2. ^ ^{a b} Ailion M, Thomas JH (September 2003). "Isolation and characterization of high-temperature-induced Dauer formation mutants in Caenorhabditis elegans". Genetics 165 (1): 127–44. PMC 1462745. PMID 14504222. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=1462745. 

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