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Hox genes, a subset of homeobox genes, are a group of related genes that specify regions of the body plan of an embryo along the head-tail axis of animals. Hox proteins encode and specify the characteristics of 'position', ensuring that the correct structures form in the correct places of the body.
209448 Ensembl ENSG00000180818 ENSMUSG00000022484 UniProt Q9NYD6 P31257 RefSeq (mRNA) NM_017409 NM_010462 RefSeq (protein) NP_059105 NP_034592 Location (UCSC) Chr 12: 53.99 – 53.99 Mb Chr 15: 102.88 – 102.88 Mb PubMed search Wikidata View/Edit Human View/Edit Mouse Homeobox protein Hox-C10 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the HOXC10 gene. Function This gene belongs to the homeobox ...
Robb Krumlauf is an American developmental biologist.He is best known for researching the Hox family of transcription factors.He is most interested in understanding the role of the Hox genes in the hindbrain and their role in areas of animal development, such as craniofacial development.
Homeobox protein Hox-C6 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the HOXC6 gene. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Hox-C6 expression is highest in the fallopian tube and ovary. [ 8 ] HoxC6 has been highly expressed in many types of cancers including prostate, breast, and esophageal squamous cell cancer.
This gene and other HOXB genes form a gene cluster on chromosome 17 in the 17q21.32 region. [6] Men who inherit a rare (<0.1% in a selected group of patients without clinical signs of prostate cancer ) genetic variant in HOXB13 (G84E or rs138213197) have a 10-20-fold increased risk of prostate cancer.
The HOX gene contains four clusters (A, B, C, and D). The sense strand of the HOXA gene codes for proteins. Alternative names for HOXA11-AS lncRNA are: HOXA-AS5, HOXA11S, HOXA11-AS1, HOXA11AS, or NCRNA00076. This gene is 3,885 nucleotides long and resides at chromosome 7 (7p15.2) and is transcribed from an independent gene promoter.
The main interest in this set of genes stems from their unique behavior and arrangement in the genome. Hox genes are typically found in an organized cluster. The linear order of Hox genes within a cluster is directly correlated to the order in which they are expressed in both time and space during development. This phenomenon is called colinearity.
Polycomb-group proteins are well known for silencing Hox genes through modulation of chromatin structure during embryonic development in fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster). They derive their name from the fact that the first sign of a decrease in PcG function is often a homeotic transformation of posterior legs towards anterior legs, which ...