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Mucin 7

Mucin-7 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the MUC7 gene. In animals, the MUC7 gene is found in most placental mammals, but not marsupials.

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MUC7
Identifiers
AliasesMUC7, MG2, mucin 7, secreted
External IDsOMIM: 158375; HomoloGene: 133350; GeneCards: MUC7; OMA:MUC7 - orthologs
Orthologs
SpeciesHumanMouse
Entrez
Ensembl
UniProt
RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_152291
NM_001145006
NM_001145007

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RefSeq (protein)

NP_001138478
NP_001138479
NP_689504

n/a

Location (UCSC)Chr 4: 70.43 – 70.48 Mbn/a
PubMed search2n/a
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Mucin-7 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the MUC7 gene.34 In animals, the MUC7 gene is found in most placental mammals, but not marsupials.5

Human variations

Humans carry either a five or six tandem repeat version of the gene. In other primates, the number of repeats found is 4-5 for gorillas, 5 for chimpanzees, 6-7 for orangutans, 8-10 for macaques, 10-11 for baboons and 11-12 for green monkeys.5

References

References

  1. GRCh38: Ensembl release 89: ENSG00000171195Ensembl, May 2017
  2. "Human PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
  3. Bobek LA, Liu J, Sait SN, Shows TB, Bobek YA, Levine MJ (February 1996). "Structure and chromosomal localization of the human salivary mucin gene, MUC7". Genomics. 31 (3): 277–82. doi:10.1006/geno.1996.0049. PMID 8838308.
  4. "Entrez Gene: MUC7 mucin 7, secreted".
  5. Xu D, Pavlidis P, Thamadilok S, Redwood E, Fox S, Blekhman R, Ruhl S, Gokcumen O (August 2016). "Recent evolution of the salivary mucin MUC7". Scientific Reports. 6 31791. Bibcode:2016NatSR...631791X. doi:10.1038/srep31791. PMC 4997351. PMID 27558399. This article contains quotations from this source, which is available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
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