ID:TCHP_HUMAN DESCRIPTION: RecName: Full=Trichoplein keratin filament-binding protein; Short=Protein TCHP; AltName: Full=Mitochondrial protein with oncostatic activity; Short=Mitostatin; AltName: Full=Tumor suppressor protein; FUNCTION: Tumor suppressor which has the ability to inhibit cell growth and be pro-apoptotic during cell stress. Inhibits cell growth in bladder and prostate cancer cells by a down-regulation of HSPB1 by inhibiting its phosphorylation. May act as a 'capping' or 'branching' protein for keratin filaments in the cell periphery. May regulate K8/K18 filament and desmosome organization mainly at the apical or peripheral regions of simple epithelial cells. SUBUNIT: Interacts specifically with keratin proteins including, KRT5, KRT6A, KRT8, KRT14, KRT16 and KRT18. SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: Cytoplasm, cytoskeleton. Cytoplasm. Cell membrane. Mitochondrion. TISSUE SPECIFICITY: Expressed at high levels in normal urothelial and breast epithelial cells. Also expressed in the smooth muscle and endothelial cells. Reduced expression seen in advanced bladder and breast carcinomas (at protein level). Ubiquitous. Expressed at highest levels in the heart, skeletal muscle, kidney, liver and testis. SIMILARITY: Belongs to the TCHP family.
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 Q9BT92
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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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