LGR6

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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.[1][2] 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.[3]

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.[2]

References

  1. 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.
  2. 2.0 2.1 "Entrez Gene: LGR6 leucine-rich repeat-containing G protein-coupled receptor 6".
  3. 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.

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