HOXC5

This gene belongs to the homeobox family of genes. The homeobox genes encode a highly conserved family of transcription factors that play an important role in morphogenesis in all multicellular organisms. Mammals possess four similar homeobox gene clusters, HOXA, HOXB, HOXC and HOXD, which are located on different chromosomes and consist of 9 to 11 genes arranged in tandem. This gene, HOXC5, is one of several homeobox HOXC genes located in a cluster on chromosome 12. Three genes, HOXC5, HOXC4 and HOXC6, share a 5' non-coding exon. Transcripts may include the shared exon spliced to the gene-specific exons, or they may include only the gene-specific exons. Two alternatively spliced variants have been described for HOXC5. The transcript variant which includes the shared exon apparently doesn't encode a protein. The protein-coding transcript variant contains gene-specific exons only. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]

Description

Homeobox C5

Tissue specificity

Tissue enhanced (brain, fallopian tube)

Subcell location

Nucleoplasm, Cell Junctions

Predicted location

Intracellular

Protein family

Mapped to neXtProt
Mapped to UniProt SWISS-PROT
Predicted intracellular proteins
Transcription factors

Chromosome

12 (54033050 - 54035361)

Ensembl ID

ENSG00000172789  (ver. 103.38)

Orthologs

Mouse Hoxc5: ENSMUSG00000022485

UniProt

Q00444

neXtProt

NX_Q00444

Human splice variants
Mouse splice variants

Protein structure