Description: Homo sapiens zyxin (ZYX), transcript variant 1, mRNA. RefSeq Summary (NM_003461): Focal adhesions are actin-rich structures that enable cells to adhere to the extracellular matrix and at which protein complexes involved in signal transduction assemble. Zyxin is a zinc-binding phosphoprotein that concentrates at focal adhesions and along the actin cytoskeleton. Zyxin has an N-terminal proline-rich domain and three LIM domains in its C-terminal half. The proline-rich domain may interact with SH3 domains of proteins involved in signal transduction pathways while the LIM domains are likely involved in protein-protein binding. Zyxin may function as a messenger in the signal transduction pathway that mediates adhesion-stimulated changes in gene expression and may modulate the cytoskeletal organization of actin bundles. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants that encode the same isoform. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]. Transcript (Including UTRs) Position: hg19 chr7:143,078,360-143,088,206 Size: 9,847 Total Exon Count: 10 Strand: + Coding Region Position: hg19 chr7:143,078,665-143,087,775 Size: 9,111 Coding Exon Count: 9
ID:ZYX_HUMAN DESCRIPTION: RecName: Full=Zyxin; AltName: Full=Zyxin-2; FUNCTION: Adhesion plaque protein. Binds alpha-actinin and the CRP protein. Important for targeting TES and ENA/VASP family members to focal adhesions and for the formation of actin-rich structures. May be a component of a signal transduction pathway that mediates adhesion-stimulated changes in gene expression (By similarity). SUBUNIT: Interacts with HPV type 6 protein E6. Does not interact significantly with E6 proteins from HPV types 11, 16, or 18. Interacts, via the Pro-rich regions, with the EVH1 domains of ENAH, EVL and VASP. Interacts with the first LIM domain of TES. Interacts with NEBL (isoform 2). INTERACTION: O95835:LATS1; NbExp=10; IntAct=EBI-444225, EBI-444209; SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: Cytoplasm. Cytoplasm, cytoskeleton. Nucleus. Cell junction, focal adhesion. Note=Associates with the actin cytoskeleton near the adhesion plaques. Enters the nucleus in the presence of HESX1. SIMILARITY: Belongs to the zyxin/ajuba family. SIMILARITY: Contains 3 LIM zinc-binding domains.
The RNAfold program from the Vienna RNA Package is used to perform the secondary structure predictions and folding calculations. The estimated folding energy is in kcal/mol. The more negative the energy, the more secondary structure the RNA is likely to have.
ModBase Predicted Comparative 3D Structure on Q15942
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Orthologous Genes in Other Species
Orthologies between human, mouse, and rat are computed by taking the best BLASTP hit, and filtering out non-syntenic hits. For more distant species reciprocal-best BLASTP hits are used. Note that the absence of an ortholog in the table below may reflect incomplete annotations in the other species rather than a true absence of the orthologous gene.
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Gene Ontology (GO) Annotations with Structured Vocabulary
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