Mucin 7

From Justapedia, unleashing the power of collective wisdom
Jump to navigation Jump to search

An Error has occurred retrieving Wikidata item for infobox Mucin-7 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the MUC7 gene.[1][2] In animals, the MUC7 gene is found in most placental mammals, but not marsupials.[3]

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.[3]

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ "Entrez Gene: MUC7 mucin 7, secreted".
  3. ^ a b 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. CC BY icon.svg This article contains quotations from this source, which is available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.

Further reading