Description
Product Characteristics:
Attractin is a serum glycoprotein of 175 kDaand found in both membrane-bound and secreted forms as a result of alternative splicing. Both the secreted and membrane-bound forms of attractin may be involved in the development and maintenance of the central nervous system. Membrane-bound attractin is a co-receptor for Agouti, antagonist of melanocortin-1 receptor. Secreted attractin, expressed by activated T lymphocytes and modulates interactions between T cells and monocytes/macrophages, was examined as a potential marker of immune activity. Attractinmay be a component of a pathway for regulated protein turnover that also involves mahogunin, a wide-expressed E3 ubiquitinligase found at particularly high levels in the brain. Attractinwas considered as an extracellular target amenable for the development of obesity-regulating drugs, also.
Subcellular location: Secreted, Cell membrane
Synonyms: ATRN, attractin-2, DPPT-L, KIAA0548, Mahogany homolog, mahogany protein, MGCA.
Target Information: Multiple transcript variants encoding different isoforms exist for this gene. One of the isoforms is a membrane-bound protein with sequence similarity to the mouse mahogany protein, a receptor involved in controlling obesity. The other two isoforms are secreted proteins involved in the initial immune cell clustering during inflammatory responses that may regulate the chemotactic activity of chemokines. [provided by RefSeq, May 2011]