SPAG6

SPAG6
Identifiers
Aliases SPAG6, CT141, Repro-SA-1, pf16, sperm associated antigen 6
External IDs MGI: 1354388 HomoloGene: 8252 GeneCards: SPAG6
RNA expression pattern


More reference expression data
Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez

9576

50525

Ensembl

ENSG00000077327

ENSMUSG00000022783

UniProt

O75602

Q9JLI7

RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_001253854
NM_001253855
NM_012443
NM_172242

NM_015773

RefSeq (protein)

NP_001240783.1
NP_001240784.1
NP_036575.1
NP_758442.1

NP_056588.1

Location (UCSC) Chr 10: 22.35 – 22.45 Mb Chr 16: 16.75 – 16.83 Mb
PubMed search [1] [2]
Wikidata
View/Edit HumanView/Edit Mouse

Sperm-associated antigen 6 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SPAG6 gene.[3][4]

The correlation of anti-sperm antibodies with cases of unexplained infertility implicates a role for these antibodies in blocking fertilization. Improved diagnosis and treatment of immunologic infertility, as well as identification of proteins for targeted contraception, are dependent on the identification and characterization of relevant sperm antigens. The protein expressed by this gene is recognized by anti-sperm antibodies from an infertile man. This protein localizes to the tail of permeabilized human sperm and contains eight contiguous armadillo repeats, a motif known to mediate protein-protein interactions. Studies in mice suggest that this protein is involved in sperm flagellar motility and maintenance of the structural integrity of mature sperm. Alternatively spliced variants that encode different protein isoforms have been described but the full-length sequences of only two have been determined.[4]

References

  1. "Human PubMed Reference:".
  2. "Mouse PubMed Reference:".
  3. Neilson LI, Schneider PA, Van Deerlin PG, Kiriakidou M, Driscoll DA, Pellegrini MC, Millinder S, Yamamoto KK, French CK, Strauss JF 3rd (Nov 1999). "cDNA cloning and characterization of a human sperm antigen (SPAG6) with homology to the product of the Chlamydomonas PF16 locus". Genomics. 60 (3): 272–80. doi:10.1006/geno.1999.5914. PMID 10493827.
  4. 1 2 "Entrez Gene: SPAG6 sperm associated antigen 6".

Further reading


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 6/5/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.