ARHGAP8

ARHGAP8
Identifiers
Aliases ARHGAP8, BPGAP1, PP610, Rho GTPase activating protein 8
External IDs MGI: 1920417 HomoloGene: 23645 GeneCards: ARHGAP8
Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez

23779

73167

Ensembl

ENSG00000241484

ENSMUSG00000078954

UniProt

P85298

Q9CXP4

RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_181335
NM_001017526
NM_001198726

NM_001164627
NM_001164628
NM_001205334
NM_028455

RefSeq (protein)

NP_001017526.1
NP_001185655.1
NP_851852.2

NP_001158099.1
NP_001158100.1
NP_001192263.1
NP_082731.2

Location (UCSC) Chr 22: 44.75 – 44.86 Mb Chr 15: 84.72 – 84.77 Mb
PubMed search [1] [2]
Wikidata
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Rho GTPase-activating protein 8 is an protein that in humans is encoded by the ARHGAP8 gene.[3][4]

Function

This gene encodes a member of the RHOGAP family. GAP (GTPase-activating) family proteins participate in signaling pathways that regulate cell processes involved in cytoskeletal changes. GAP proteins alternate between an active (GTP-bound) and inactive (GDP-bound) state based on the GTP:GDP ratio in the cell. Rare read-through transcripts, containing exons from the PRR5 gene which is located immediately upstream, led to the original description of this gene as encoding a RHOGAP protein containing the proline-rich domains characteristic of PRR5 proteins. Alternatively spliced variants encoding different isoforms have been described.[4]

References

  1. "Human PubMed Reference:".
  2. "Mouse PubMed Reference:".
  3. Dunham I, Shimizu N, Roe BA, Chissoe S, Hunt AR, Collins JE, Bruskiewich R, Beare DM, Clamp M, Smink LJ, Ainscough R, Almeida JP, Babbage A, Bagguley C, Bailey J, Barlow K, Bates KN, Beasley O, Bird CP, Blakey S, Bridgeman AM, Buck D, Burgess J, Burrill WD, O'Brien KP (Dec 1999). "The DNA sequence of human chromosome 22". Nature. 402 (6761): 489–495. doi:10.1038/990031. PMID 10591208.
  4. 1 2 "Entrez Gene: ARHGAP8 Rho GTPase activating protein 8".

Further reading


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