Description: Homo sapiens tetraspanin 32 (TSPAN32), mRNA. RefSeq Summary (NM_139022): This gene, which is a member of the tetraspanin superfamily, is one of several tumor-suppressing subtransferable fragments located in the imprinted gene domain of chromosome 11p15.5, an important tumor-suppressor gene region. Alterations in this region have been associated with Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome, Wilms tumor, rhabdomyosarcoma, adrenocortical carcinoma, and lung, ovarian and breast cancers. This gene is located among several imprinted genes; however, this gene, as well as the tumor-suppressing subchromosomal transferable fragment 4, escapes imprinting. This gene may play a role in malignancies and diseases that involve this region, and it is also involved in hematopoietic cell function. Alternatively spliced transcript variants have been described, but their biological validity has not been determined. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]. Sequence Note: A downstream start codon is selected for this RefSeq based on better conservation with homologs. The use of an alternative upstream start codon, which is present in primate species, would increase the protein length from 320 aa to 355 aa. The presence of a predicted signal anchor for the shorter, but not the longer, protein suggests that the downstream start codon may be preferentially used. The shorter protein is described in PMID 11718897. Transcript (Including UTRs) Position: hg19 chr11:2,323,243-2,336,890 Size: 13,648 Total Exon Count: 6 Strand: + Coding Region Position: hg19 chr11:2,323,275-2,336,541 Size: 13,267 Coding Exon Count: 6
The RNAfold program from the Vienna RNA Package is used to perform the secondary structure predictions and folding calculations. The estimated folding energy is in kcal/mol. The more negative the energy, the more secondary structure the RNA is likely to have.
ModBase Predicted Comparative 3D Structure on Q96QS1-3
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Orthologous Genes in Other Species
Orthologies between human, mouse, and rat are computed by taking the best BLASTP hit, and filtering out non-syntenic hits. For more distant species reciprocal-best BLASTP hits are used. Note that the absence of an ortholog in the table below may reflect incomplete annotations in the other species rather than a true absence of the orthologous gene.