EQTN

EQTN
Identifiers
Aliases	EQTN, AFAF, C9orf11, SPACA8, equatorin
External IDs	OMIM: 617653 MGI: 1915003 HomoloGene: 75250 GeneCards: EQTN
Gene location (Mouse)
Chr.	Chromosome 4 (mouse)
End	94,817,080 bp
RNA expression pattern
	Top expressed in
	sperm; ; corpus callosum; ; gastric mucosa; ; right lung; ; rectum; ; left uterine tube; ; tibial nerve; ; body of stomach; ; left coronary artery; ; substantia nigra;
	Top expressed in
	spermatid; ; seminiferous tubule; ; spermatocyte; ; superior frontal gyrus; ; upper arm; ; skeletal muscle tissue; ; triceps brachii muscle; ; temporal muscle; ; digastric muscle; ; lens;
	More reference expression data
	n/a
Orthologs
	54586
	67753
	n/a
	ENSMUSG00000028575
	Q9NQ60
	Q9D9V2
	NM_001161585; NM_020641
	NM_001290623; NM_027089
	NP_001155057; NP_065692
	NP_001277552; NP_081365
	Wikidata
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Equatorin, sperm acrosome associated is a protein that in humans is encoded by the EQTN gene.^[4]

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b ^c GRCm38: Ensembl release 89: ENSMUSG00000028575 – Ensembl, May 2017
^ "Human PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
^ "Mouse PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
^ "Entrez Gene: Equatorin, sperm acrosome associated".

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Li YC, Hu XQ, Zhang KY, Guo J, Hu ZY, Tao SX, Xiao LJ, Wang QZ, Han CS, Liu YX (July 2006). "Afaf, a novel vesicle membrane protein, is related to acrosome formation in murine testis". FEBS Letters. 580 (17): 4266–73. doi:10.1016/j.febslet.2006.06.010. PMID 16831425. S2CID 43408857.
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