HOXC5

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Homeobox protein Hox-C5 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the HOXC5 gene.

Function

This gene belongs to the homeobox family of genes. The homeobox genes encode a highly conserved family of transcription factors that play an important role in morphogenesis in all multicellular organisms. Mammals possess four similar homeobox gene clusters, HOXA, HOXB, HOXC and HOXD, which are located on different chromosomes and consist of 9 to 11 genes arranged in tandem. This gene, HOXC5, is one of several homeobox HOXC genes located in a cluster on chromosome 12. Three genes, HOXC5, HOXC4 and HOXC6, share a 5' non-coding exon. Transcripts may include the shared exon spliced to the gene-specific exons, or they may include only the gene-specific exons. Two alternatively spliced variants have been described for HOXC5. The transcript variant which includes the shared exon apparently doesn't encode a protein. The protein-coding transcript variant contains gene-specific exons only.

Further reading

• Arcioni L, Simeone A, Guazzi S, Zappavigna V, Boncinelli E, Mavilio F (Jan 1992). "The upstream region of the human homeobox gene HOX3D is a target for regulation by retinoic acid and HOX homeoproteins". The EMBO Journal. 11 (1): 265–77. PMC 556447. PMID 1346761.
• Acampora D, D'Esposito M, Faiella A, Pannese M, Migliaccio E, Morelli F, Stornaiuolo A, Nigro V, Simeone A, Boncinelli E (Dec 1989). "The human HOX gene family". Nucleic Acids Research. 17 (24): 10385–402. doi:10.1093/nar/17.24.10385. PMC 335308. PMID 2574852.
• Boncinelli E, Acampora D, Pannese M, D'Esposito M, Somma R, Gaudino G, Stornaiuolo A, Cafiero M, Faiella A, Simeone A (1990). "Organization of human class I homeobox genes". Genome / National Research Council Canada = Génome / Conseil National De Recherches Canada. 31 (2): 745–56. doi:10.1139/g89-133. PMID 2576652.
• Rabin M, Ferguson-Smith A, Hart CP, Ruddle FH (Dec 1986). "Cognate homeo-box loci mapped on homologous human and mouse chromosomes". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 83 (23): 9104–8. doi:10.1073/pnas.83.23.9104. PMC 387083. PMID 2878432.
• Simeone A, Pannese M, Acampora D, D'Esposito M, Boncinelli E (Jun 1988). "At least three human homeoboxes on chromosome 12 belong to the same transcription unit". Nucleic Acids Research. 16 (12): 5379–90. doi:10.1093/nar/16.12.5379. PMC 336773. PMID 2898768.
• Guazzi S, Lonigro R, Pintonello L, Boncinelli E, Di Lauro R, Mavilio F (Jul 1994). "The thyroid transcription factor-1 gene is a candidate target for regulation by Hox proteins". The EMBO Journal. 13 (14): 3339–47. PMC 395231. PMID 7913891.
• Apiou F, Flagiello D, Cillo C, Malfoy B, Poupon MF, Dutrillaux B (1996). "Fine mapping of human HOX gene clusters". Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics. 73 (1–2): 114–5. doi:10.1159/000134320. PMID 8646877.
• Kosaki K, Kosaki R, Suzuki T, Yoshihashi H, Takahashi T, Sasaki K, Tomita M, McGinnis W, Matsuo N (Feb 2002). "Complete mutation analysis panel of the 39 human HOX genes". Teratology. 65 (2): 50–62. doi:10.1002/tera.10009. PMID 11857506.

External links

• HOXC5+protein,+human at the US National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

This article incorporates text from the United States National Library of Medicine, which is in the public domain.