MYH13

MYH13
Identifiers
Aliases	MYH13, MyHC-IIL, MyHC-eo, myosin, heavy chain 13, skeletal muscle, myosin heavy chain 13
External IDs	OMIM: 603487; MGI: 1339967; HomoloGene: 55780; GeneCards: MYH13; OMA:MYH13 - orthologs
Gene location (Human)
Chr.	Chromosome 17 (human)
End	10,373,130 bp
Gene location (Mouse)
Chr.	Chromosome 11 (mouse)
End	67,262,412 bp
RNA expression pattern
	Top expressed in
	gonad; ; skeletal muscle tissue; ; tibialis anterior muscle; ; muscle of thigh; ; body of stomach; ; synovial joint; ; placenta; ; gastrocnemius muscle; ; fundus; ; myometrium;
	Top expressed in
	morula; ; skeletal muscle tissue; ; muscle of thigh; ; quadriceps femoris muscle; ; zone of skin; ; blastocyst; ; lung; ; pancreas; ; tail of embryo; ; esophagus;
	More reference expression data
	n/a
Gene ontology
Molecular function	nucleotide binding; actin binding; microfilament motor activity; cytoskeletal motor activity; ATP binding; calmodulin binding; actin filament binding;
Cellular component	cytoplasm; myosin filament; muscle myosin complex; myofibril; extracellular exosome; myosin complex;
Biological process	muscle contraction; cellular response to starvation;
	Sources:Amigo / QuickGO
Orthologs
	8735
	544791
	ENSG00000006788
	ENSMUSG00000060180
	Q9UKX3
	n/a
	NM_003802
	NM_001081250
	NP_003793
	n/a
	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.^[5] ^[6]

Function

MYH13 is a myosin whose expression is restricted primarily to the extrinsic eye muscles which are specialized for function in eye movement.^[5]

^ ^a ^b ^c GRCh38: Ensembl release 89: ENSG00000006788 – Ensembl, May 2017
^ ^a ^b ^c GRCm38: Ensembl release 89: ENSMUSG00000060180 – Ensembl, May 2017
^ "Human PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
^ "Mouse PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
^ ^a ^b 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.
^ 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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Schachat F, Briggs MM (2002). "Phylogenetic implications of the superfast myosin in extraocular muscles". J. Exp. Biol. 205 (Pt 15): 2189–201. doi:10.1242/jeb.205.15.2189. PMID 12110653.
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