INSL4

Insulin-like 4 (placenta)
Identifiers
Symbols INSL4 ; EPIL; PLACENTIN
External IDs OMIM: 600910 HomoloGene: 88662 GeneCards: INSL4 Gene
RNA expression pattern
More reference expression data
Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez 3641 n/a
Ensembl ENSG00000120211 n/a
UniProt Q14641 n/a
RefSeq (mRNA) NM_002195 n/a
RefSeq (protein) NP_002186 n/a
Location (UCSC) Chr 9:
5.23 – 5.24 Mb
n/a
PubMed search n/a

Early placenta insulin-like peptide is a protein that in humans is encoded by the INSL4 gene.[1][2][3]

INSL4 encodes the insulin-like 4 protein, a member of the insulin superfamily. INSL4 encodes a precursor that undergoes post-translational cleavage to produce 3 polypeptide chains, A-C, that form tertiary structures composed of either all three chains, or just the A and B chains. Expression of INSL4 products occurs within the early placental cytotrophoblast and syncytiotrophoblast.[3]

References

  1. Chassin D, Laurent A, Janneau JL, Berger R, Bellet D (Aug 1996). "Cloning of a new member of the insulin gene superfamily (INSL4) expressed in human placenta". Genomics 29 (2): 465–70. doi:10.1006/geno.1995.9980. PMID 8666396.
  2. Veitia R, Laurent A, Quintana-Murci L, Ottolenghi C, Fellous M, Vidaud M, McElreavey K (Oct 1998). "The INSL4 gene maps close to WI-5527 at 9p24.1→p23.3 clustered with two relaxin genes and outside the critical region for the monosomy 9p syndrome". Cytogenet Cell Genet 81 (3–4): 275–7. doi:10.1159/000015045. PMID 9730618.
  3. 1 2 "Entrez Gene: INSL4 insulin-like 4 (placenta)".

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