Description
Product Characteristics: SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: Mitochondrion inner membrane, Multi-pass membrane protein TISSUE SPECIFICITY: Strongly expressed in brain, cerebellum, skeletal muscle, testis. High expression also found in fetal brain, fetal retinal pigmentary epithelium, and fetal retina. Highly expressed in retinal ganglion cells. Involvement in disease: Optic atrophy 7 (OPA7): A hereditary condition that features progressive visual loss in association with optic atrophy. Atrophy of the optic disk indicates a deficiency in the number of nerve fibers which arise in the retina and converge to form the optic disk, optic nerve, optic chiasm and optic tracts. OPA7 is an autosomal recessive juvenile-onset optic atrophy characterized by severe bilateral deficiency in visual acuity, optic disk pallor, and central scotoma. Note: The disease is caused by mutations affecting the gene represented in this entry.,Vision,Transmembrane protein 126A
Target Information: The protein encoded by this gene is a mitochondrial membrane protein of unknown function. Defects in this gene are a cause of optic atrophy type 7 (OPA7). Two transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been found for this gene. [provided by RefSeq, Sep 2011]