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LGR6

Leucine-rich repeat-containing G-protein coupled receptor 6 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the LGR6 gene. Along with the other G-protein coupled receptors LGR4 and LGR5, LGR6 is a Wnt signaling pathway mediator. LGR6 also acts as an epithelial stem cell marker in squamous cell carcinoma in mice in vivo.

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LGR6
Identifiers
AliasesLGR6, GPCR, VTS20631, leucine-rich repeat containing G protein-coupled receptor 6, leucine rich repeat containing G protein-coupled receptor 6
External IDsOMIM: 606653; MGI: 2441805; HomoloGene: 49680; GeneCards: LGR6; OMA:LGR6 - orthologs
Orthologs
SpeciesHumanMouse
Entrez
Ensembl
UniProt
RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_001017403
NM_001017404
NM_021636

NM_001033409

RefSeq (protein)

NP_001017403
NP_001017404
NP_067649

NP_001028581

Location (UCSC)Chr 1: 202.19 – 202.32 MbChr 1: 134.91 – 135.03 Mb
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Leucine-rich repeat-containing G-protein coupled receptor 6 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the LGR6 gene.56 Along with the other G-protein coupled receptors LGR4 and LGR5, LGR6 is a Wnt signaling pathway mediator. LGR6 also acts as an epithelial stem cell marker in squamous cell carcinoma in mice in vivo.7

This gene encodes a member of the leucine-rich repeat-containing subgroup of the G protein-coupled 7-transmembrane protein superfamily. The encoded protein is a glycoprotein hormone receptor with a large N-terminal extracellular domain that contains leucine-rich repeats important for the formation of a horseshoe-shaped interaction motif for ligand binding. Alternative splicing of this gene results in multiple transcript variants.6

References

References

  1. GRCh38: Ensembl release 89: ENSG00000133067Ensembl, May 2017
  2. GRCm38: Ensembl release 89: ENSMUSG00000042793Ensembl, May 2017
  3. "Human PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
  4. "Mouse PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
  5. Hsu SY, Kudo M, Chen T, Nakabayashi K, Bhalla A, van der Spek PJ, van Duin M, Hsueh AJ (Jan 2001). "The three subfamilies of leucine-rich repeat-containing G protein-coupled receptors (LGR): identification of LGR6 and LGR7 and the signaling mechanism for LGR7". Mol Endocrinol. 14 (8): 1257–71. doi:10.1210/me.14.8.1257. PMID 10935549.
  6. "Entrez Gene: LGR6 leucine-rich repeat-containing G protein-coupled receptor 6".
  7. Huang, Phillips Y.; Kandyba, Eve; Jabouille, Arnaud; Sjolund, Jonas; Kumar, Atul; Halliwill, Kyle; McCreery, Melissa; DelRosario, Reyno; Kang, Hio Chung (2017). "Lgr6 is a stem cell marker in mouse skin squamous cell carcinoma". Nature Genetics. 49 (11): 1624–1632. doi:10.1038/ng.3957. PMC 5662105. PMID 28945253.
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