ID:LAMA4_MOUSE DESCRIPTION: RecName: Full=Laminin subunit alpha-4; AltName: Full=Laminin-14 subunit alpha; AltName: Full=Laminin-8 subunit alpha; AltName: Full=Laminin-9 subunit alpha; Flags: Precursor; FUNCTION: Binding to cells via a high affinity receptor, laminin is thought to mediate the attachment, migration and organization of cells into tissues during embryonic development by interacting with other extracellular matrix components. SUBUNIT: Laminin is a complex glycoprotein, consisting of three different polypeptide chains (alpha, beta, gamma), which are bound to each other by disulfide bonds into a cross-shaped molecule comprising one long and three short arms with globules at each end. Alpha-4 is a subunit of laminin-8 (laminin-411), laminin-9 (laminin-421) and laminin-14 (laminin-423). SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: Secreted, extracellular space, extracellular matrix, basement membrane. Note=Major component. TISSUE SPECIFICITY: Strongly expressed in peripheral nerves, cardiac muscle, fat, dermis, lung stroma, aortic endothelium, endocardium and endothelium of blood vessels in skin and brain. DOMAIN: The alpha-helical domains I and II are thought to interact with other laminin chains to form a coiled coil structure. DOMAIN: Domain G is globular. SIMILARITY: Contains 4 laminin EGF-like domains. SIMILARITY: Contains 5 laminin G-like domains.
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 P97927
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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.
Biological Process: GO:0001568 blood vessel development GO:0007155 cell adhesion GO:0030155 regulation of cell adhesion GO:0030334 regulation of cell migration GO:0045995 regulation of embryonic development GO:0050873 brown fat cell differentiation