Description
Product Characteristics:
ANXA9 may act as a low affinity receptor for acetylcholine and is expressed in the stratified squamous skin epithelium, but not in epithelia of other types (at protein level). ANXA9 is one of the target molecules recognized by auto in patients with pemphigus vulgaris, a rare, autoimmune skin disease in which epidermal blisters occur as the result of the loss of cell-cell adhesion.
Subcellular location: Cytoplasm, Secreted, Extracellular matrix
Synonyms: annexin 31, annexin A9, annexin XXXI, ANX31, ANXA9, ANXA 9, ANXA-9, pemphaxin, ANXA9_HUMAN.
Target Information: The annexins are a family of calcium-dependent phospholipid-binding proteins. Members of the annexin family contain 4 internal repeat domains, each of which includes a type II calcium-binding site. The calcium-binding sites are required for annexins to aggregate and cooperatively bind anionic phospholipids and extracellular matrix proteins. This gene encodes a divergent member of the annexin protein family in which all four homologous type II calcium-binding sites in the conserved tetrad core contain amino acid substitutions that ablate their function. However, structural analysis suggests that the conserved putative ion channel formed by the tetrad core is intact. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]