PCDHA12

Protocadherin alpha-12 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the PCDHA12 gene.

PCDHA12
Identifiers
Aliases	PCDHA12, PCDH-ALPHA12, protocadherin alpha 12
External IDs	OMIM: 606318; MGI: 1298408; HomoloGene: 135720; GeneCards: PCDHA12; OMA:PCDHA12 - orthologs
Gene location (Human) Chr. Chromosome 5 (human) Band 5q31.3 Start 140,875,302 bp End 141,012,347 bp
Gene location (Mouse) Chr. Chromosome 18 (mouse) Band 18|18 B3 Start 37,138,256 bp End 37,320,710 bp
RNA expression pattern Bgee Human Mouse (ortholog) Top expressed in testicle cerebellum cerebellar cortex cerebellar hemisphere islet of Langerhans prefrontal cortex ganglionic eminence gallbladder right hemisphere of cerebellum superior frontal gyrus Top expressed in Ileal epithelium CA3 field choroid plexus of fourth ventricle granular layer soleus muscle granular layer of dentate gyrus Purkinje cell dentate gyrus of hippocampal formation granule cell tibialis anterior muscle lactiferous gland More reference expression data BioGPS n/a
Gene ontology Molecular function calcium ion binding Cellular component integral component of membrane plasma membrane membrane integral component of plasma membrane Biological process homophilic cell adhesion via plasma membrane adhesion molecules cell adhesion cell-cell signaling nervous system development Sources:Amigo / QuickGO
Orthologs Species Human Mouse Entrez 56137 12943 Ensembl ENSG00000251664 ENSMUSG00000007440 UniProt Q9UN75 Q91Y20 RefSeq (mRNA) NM_031864 NM_018903 NM_009961 RefSeq (protein) NP_061726 NP_114070 NP_034091 Location (UCSC) Chr 5: 140.88 – 141.01 Mb Chr 18: 37.14 – 37.32 Mb PubMed search
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This gene is a member of the protocadherin alpha gene cluster, one of three related gene clusters tandemly linked on chromosome 5 that demonstrate an unusual genomic organization similar to that of B-cell and T-cell receptor gene clusters. The alpha gene cluster is composed of 15 cadherin superfamily genes related to the mouse CNR genes and consists of 13 highly similar and 2 more distantly related coding sequences. The tandem array of 15 N-terminal exons, or variable exons, are followed by downstream C-terminal exons, or constant exons, which are shared by all genes in the cluster. The large, uninterrupted N-terminal exons each encode six cadherin ectodomains while the C-terminal exons encode the cytoplasmic domain. These neural cadherin-like cell adhesion proteins are integral plasma membrane proteins that most likely play a critical role in the establishment and function of specific cell-cell connections in the brain. Alternative splicing has been observed and additional variants have been suggested but their full-length nature has yet to be determined.

Further reading

• Yagi T, Takeichi M (2000). "Cadherin superfamily genes: functions, genomic organization, and neurologic diversity". Genes Dev. 14 (10): 1169–80. doi:10.1101/gad.14.10.1169. PMID 10817752. S2CID 44844497.
• Nollet F, Kools P, van Roy F (2000). "Phylogenetic analysis of the cadherin superfamily allows identification of six major subfamilies besides several solitary members". J. Mol. Biol. 299 (3): 551–72. doi:10.1006/jmbi.2000.3777. PMID 10835267.
• Martineau J, Barthélémy C, Jouve J, et al. (1992). "Monoamines (serotonin and catecholamines) and their derivatives in infantile autism: age-related changes and drug effects". Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology. 34 (7): 593–603. doi:10.1111/j.1469-8749.1992.tb11490.x. PMID 1380929. S2CID 28807066.
• Sugino H, Hamada S, Yasuda R, et al. (2000). "Genomic organization of the family of CNR cadherin genes in mice and humans". Genomics. 63 (1): 75–87. doi:10.1006/geno.1999.6066. PMID 10662547.
• Wu Q, Maniatis T (2000). "Large exons encoding multiple ectodomains are a characteristic feature of protocadherin genes". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 97 (7): 3124–9. Bibcode:2000PNAS...97.3124W. doi:10.1073/pnas.060027397. PMC 16203. PMID 10716726.
• Wu Q, Zhang T, Cheng JF, et al. (2001). "Comparative DNA sequence analysis of mouse and human protocadherin gene clusters". Genome Res. 11 (3): 389–404. doi:10.1101/gr.167301. PMC 311048. PMID 11230163.
• Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH, et al. (2003). "Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99 (26): 16899–903. Bibcode:2002PNAS...9916899M. doi:10.1073/pnas.242603899. PMC 139241. PMID 12477932.
• Schmutz J, Martin J, Terry A, et al. (2004). "The DNA sequence and comparative analysis of human chromosome 5". Nature. 431 (7006): 268–74. Bibcode:2004Natur.431..268S. doi:10.1038/nature02919. PMID 15372022. S2CID 4373053.
• Otsuki T, Ota T, Nishikawa T, et al. (2007). "Signal sequence and keyword trap in silico for selection of full-length human cDNAs encoding secretion or membrane proteins from oligo-capped cDNA libraries". DNA Res. 12 (2): 117–26. doi:10.1093/dnares/12.2.117. PMID 16303743.