EPHB6

EPH receptor B6
Identifiers
Symbols	EPHB6 ; HEP
External IDs	OMIM: 602757 MGI: 1096338 HomoloGene: 20940 ChEMBL: 5836 GeneCards: EPHB6 Gene
EC number	2.7.10.1
Gene ontology Molecular function • receptor activity • ephrin receptor activity • protein binding • ATP binding Cellular component • extracellular region • cytosol • plasma membrane • integral component of plasma membrane Biological process • protein phosphorylation • axon guidance • ephrin receptor signaling pathway Sources: Amigo / QuickGO
RNA expression pattern
More reference expression data
Orthologs
Species	Human	Mouse
Entrez	2051	13848
Ensembl	ENSG00000106123	ENSMUSG00000029869
UniProt	O15197	O08644
RefSeq (mRNA)	NM_001280794	NM_001146351
RefSeq (protein)	NP_001267723	NP_001139823
Location (UCSC)	Chr 7: 142.86 – 142.87 Mb	Chr 6: 41.61 – 41.62 Mb
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Ephrin type-B receptor 6 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the EPHB6 gene.^[1]

Ephrin receptors and their ligands, the ephrins, mediate numerous developmental processes, particularly in the nervous system. Based on their structures and sequence relationships, ephrins are divided into the ephrin-A (EFNA) class, which are anchored to the membrane by a glycosylphosphatidylinositol linkage, and the ephrin-B (EFNB) class, which are transmembrane proteins. The Eph family of receptors are divided into 2 groups based on the similarity of their extracellular domain sequences and their affinities for binding ephrin-A and ephrin-B ligands. Ephrin receptors make up the largest subgroup of the receptor tyrosine kinase (RTK) family. The ephrin receptor encoded by this gene lacks the kinase activity of most receptor tyrosine kinases and binds to ephrin-B ligands.^[1]

References

1. "Entrez Gene: EPHB6 EPH receptor B6".

Further reading

• Flanagan JG, Vanderhaeghen P (1998). "The ephrins and Eph receptors in neural development". Annu. Rev. Neurosci. 21: 309–45. doi:10.1146/annurev.neuro.21.1.309. PMID 9530499.
• Zhou R (1998). "The Eph family receptors and ligands". Pharmacol. Ther. 77 (3): 151–81. doi:10.1016/S0163-7258(97)00112-5. PMID 9576626.
• Holder N, Klein R (1999). "Eph receptors and ephrins: effectors of morphogenesis". Development 126 (10): 2033–44. PMID 10207129.
• Wilkinson DG (2000). "Eph receptors and ephrins: regulators of guidance and assembly; Chapter: Eph receptors and ephrins: Regulators of guidance and assembly". Int. Rev. Cytol. International Review of Cytology 196: 177–244. doi:10.1016/S0074-7696(00)96005-4. ISBN 978-0-12-364600-2. PMID 10730216.
• Xu Q, Mellitzer G, Wilkinson DG (2001). "Roles of Eph receptors and ephrins in segmental patterning". Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond., B, Biol. Sci. 355 (1399): 993–1002. doi:10.1098/rstb.2000.0635. PMC 1692797. PMID 11128993.
• Wilkinson DG (2001). "Multiple roles of EPH receptors and ephrins in neural development". Nat. Rev. Neurosci. 2 (3): 155–64. doi:10.1038/35058515. PMID 11256076.
• Bonaldo MF, Lennon G, Soares MB (1997). "Normalization and subtraction: two approaches to facilitate gene discovery". Genome Res. 6 (9): 791–806. doi:10.1101/gr.6.9.791. PMID 8889548.
• Matsuoka H, Iwata N, Ito M; et al. (1997). "Expression of a kinase-defective Eph-like receptor in the normal human brain". Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 235 (3): 487–92. doi:10.1006/bbrc.1997.6812. PMID 9207182.
• Ephnomenclaturecommittee, (1997). "Unified nomenclature for Eph family receptors and their ligands, the ephrins. Eph Nomenclature Committee". Cell 90 (3): 403–4. doi:10.1016/S0092-8674(00)80500-0. PMID 9267020.
• Hock B, Böhme B, Karn T; et al. (1998). "PDZ-domain-mediated interaction of the Eph-related receptor tyrosine kinase EphB3 and the ras-binding protein AF6 depends on the kinase activity of the receptor". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 95 (17): 9779–84. doi:10.1073/pnas.95.17.9779. PMC 21413. PMID 9707552.
• Munthe E, Rian E, Holien T; et al. (2000). "Ephrin-B2 is a candidate ligand for the Eph receptor, EphB6". FEBS Lett. 466 (1): 169–74. doi:10.1016/S0014-5793(99)01793-7. PMID 10648835.
• Shimoyama M, Matsuoka H, Tamekane A; et al. (2000). "T-cell-specific expression of kinase-defective Eph-family receptor protein, EphB6 in normal as well as transformed hematopoietic cells". Growth Factors 18 (1): 63–78. doi:10.3109/08977190009003234. PMID 10831073.
• Tang XX, Zhao H, Robinson ME; et al. (2000). "Implications of EPHB6, EFNB2, and EFNB3 expressions in human neuroblastoma". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 97 (20): 10936–41. doi:10.1073/pnas.190123297. PMC 27127. PMID 10984508.
• Luo H, Wan X, Wu Y, Wu J (2001). "Cross-linking of EphB6 resulting in signal transduction and apoptosis in Jurkat cells". J. Immunol. 167 (3): 1362–70. doi:10.4049/jimmunol.167.3.1362. PMID 11466354.