Amnionless

AMN
Identifiers
Aliases AMN, PRO1028, amnionless, Amnionless, amnion associated transmembrane protein
External IDs MGI: 1934943 HomoloGene: 12804 GeneCards: AMN
RNA expression pattern
More reference expression data
Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez

81693

93835

Ensembl

ENSG00000166126

ENSMUSG00000021278

UniProt

Q9BXJ7

Q99JB7

RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_030943

NM_033603

RefSeq (protein)

NP_112205.2

NP_291081.2

Location (UCSC) Chr 14: 102.92 – 102.93 Mb Chr 12: 111.27 – 111.28 Mb
PubMed search [1] [2]
Wikidata
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Amnionless is a protein that in humans is encoded by the AMN gene.[3][4]

Function

A complex of amnionless and cubilin forms the cubam receptor.

The protein encoded by this gene is a type I transmembrane protein. It is thought to modulate bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) receptor function by serving as an accessory or coreceptor, and thus facilitates or hinders BMP binding. It is known that the mouse AMN gene is expressed in the extraembryonic visceral endoderm layer during gastrulation, but it is found to be mutated in amnionless mouse. The encoded protein has sequence similarity to short gastrulation (Sog) and procollagen IIA proteins in Drosophila.[4]

References

  1. "Human PubMed Reference:".
  2. "Mouse PubMed Reference:".
  3. Kalantry S, Manning S, Haub O, Tomihara-Newberger C, Lee HG, Fangman J, Disteche CM, Manova K, Lacy E (Mar 2001). "The amnionless gene, essential for mouse gastrulation, encodes a visceral-endoderm-specific protein with an extracellular cysteine-rich domain". Nat Genet. 27 (4): 412–6. doi:10.1038/86912. PMID 11279523.
  4. 1 2 "Entrez Gene: AMN amnionless homolog (mouse)".

Further reading

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