Thymosin beta-4, Y-chromosomal

Thymosin, beta 4, Y-linked
Identifiers
Symbols	TMSB4Y ; MGC26307; TB4Y
External IDs	Template:OMIM5
Gene ontology Molecular function Template:GNF GO Cellular component Template:GNF GO Template:GNF GO Biological process Template:GNF GO Template:GNF GO Template:GNF GO
RNA expression pattern
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More reference expression data
Orthologs
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Species	Human	Mouse
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RefSeq (mRNA)	n/a	n/a
RefSeq (protein)	n/a	n/a
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Thymosin, beta 4, Y-linked, also known as TMSB4Y, is a human gene.

This gene lies within the male specific region of chromosome Y. Its homolog on chromosome X escapes X inactivation and encodes an actin sequestering protein.

Further reading

• Yu FX, Lin SC, Morrison-Bogorad M; et al. (1993). "Thymosin beta 10 and thymosin beta 4 are both actin monomer sequestering proteins". J. Biol. Chem. 268 (1): 502–9. PMID 8416954.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Li X, Zimmerman A, Copeland NG; et al. (1997). "The mouse thymosin beta 4 gene: structure, promoter identification, and chromosome localization". Genomics. 32 (3): 388–94. doi:10.1006/geno.1996.0133. PMID 8838802.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Lahn BT, Page DC (1997). "Functional coherence of the human Y chromosome". Science. 278 (5338): 675–80. PMID 9381176.
• "Toward a complete human genome sequence". Genome Res. 8 (11): 1097–108. 1999. PMID 9847074.
• Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH; et al. (2003). "Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99 (26): 16899–903. doi:10.1073/pnas.242603899. PMID 12477932.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Skaletsky H, Kuroda-Kawaguchi T, Minx PJ; et al. (2003). "The male-specific region of the human Y chromosome is a mosaic of discrete sequence classes". Nature. 423 (6942): 825–37. doi:10.1038/nature01722. PMID 12815422.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Gerhard DS, Wagner L, Feingold EA; et al. (2004). "The status, quality, and expansion of the NIH full-length cDNA project: the Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC)". Genome Res. 14 (10B): 2121–7. doi:10.1101/gr.2596504. PMID 15489334.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Torikai H, Akatsuka Y, Miyazaki M; et al. (2005). "A novel HLA-A*3303-restricted minor histocompatibility antigen encoded by an unconventional open reading frame of human TMSB4Y gene". J. Immunol. 173 (11): 7046–54. PMID 15557202.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Rual JF, Venkatesan K, Hao T; et al. (2005). "Towards a proteome-scale map of the human protein-protein interaction network". Nature. 437 (7062): 1173–8. doi:10.1038/nature04209. PMID 16189514.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)