MYH13

MYH13
Identifiers
Aliases MYH13, MyHC-IIL, MyHC-eo, myosin, heavy chain 13, skeletal muscle, myosin heavy chain 13
External IDs MGI: 1339967 HomoloGene: 55780 GeneCards: MYH13
Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez

8735

544791

Ensembl

ENSG00000006788

ENSMUSG00000060180

UniProt

Q9UKX3

n/a

RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_003802

NM_001081250

RefSeq (protein)

NP_003793.2

n/a

Location (UCSC) Chr 17: 10.3 – 10.37 Mb Chr 11: 67.32 – 67.37 Mb
PubMed search [1] [2]
Wikidata
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Myosin-13 also known as myosin, heavy chain 13 is a protein which in humans is encoded by the MYH13 gene.[3]

Function

MYH13 is a myosin whose expression is restricted primarily to the extrinsic eye muscles which are specialized for function in eye movement.[4]

References

  1. "Human PubMed Reference:".
  2. "Mouse PubMed Reference:".
  3. Winters LM, Briggs MM, Schachat F (November 1998). "The human extraocular muscle myosin heavy chain gene (MYH13) maps to the cluster of fast and developmental myosin genes on chromosome 17". Genomics. 54 (1): 188–9. doi:10.1006/geno.1998.5558. PMID 9806854.
  4. Weiss A, Schiaffino S, Leinwand LA (July 1999). "Comparative sequence analysis of the complete human sarcomeric myosin heavy chain family: implications for functional diversity". J. Mol. Biol. 290 (1): 61–75. doi:10.1006/jmbi.1999.2865. PMID 10388558.

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