Biology:ARMCX6

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Short description: Protein-coding gene in the species Homo sapiens


A representation of the 3D structure of the protein myoglobin showing turquoise α-helices.
Generic protein structure example


Armadillo repeat containing X-linked 6 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ARMCX6 gene located on the X-chromosome.[1]

It is one of six armadillo repeats containing X-linked proteins (ARMCX1, ARMCX2, ARMCX3, ARMCX4, ARMCX5, and ARMCX6 (this protein)).

The function of this protein is unknown at this time.

Protein sequence

     1 MGRAREVGWM AAGLMIGAGA CYCVYKLTIG RDDSEKLEEE 
    41 GEEEWDDDQE LDEEEPDIWF DFETMARPWT EDGDWTEPGA 
    81 PGGTEDRPSG GGKANRAHPI KQRPFPYEHK NTWSAQNCKN 
   121 GSCVLDLSKC LFIQGKLLFA EPKDAGFPFS QDINSHLASL 
   161 SMARNTSPTP DPTVREALCA PDNLNASIES QGQIKMYINE 
   201 VCRETVSRCC NSFLQQAGLN LLISMTVINN MLAKSASDLK 
   241 FPLISEGSGC AKVQVLKPLM GLSEKPVLAG ELVGAQMLFS 
   301 FMSLFIRNGN REILLETPAP

Homology

ARMCX6 is conserved in many eukaryotic organisms.

Orthologs

taxonomic name common name NCBI entry Percentage of sequence similarity Length (AAs) comments
Homo sapiens Human [1] 100% 300 armadillo repeat containing X-linked 6
Macaca mulatta Rhesus monkey [2] 97.0% 300 PREDICTED: similar to amrmadillo repeat containing, X-linked 6 (H. sapiens)-like isoform 1
Equus caballus Horse [3] 90.0% 300 PREDICTED: similar to armadillo repeat containing, X-linked 6
Danio rerio zebrafish [4] 84.0% 301 Similar to RIKEN cDNA 0610039K22
Mus musculus House Mouse [5] 97.7% 393 armadillo repeat containing, X-linked 6 (H. sapiens)-like
Bos taurus cow [6] 83.0% 301 armadillo repeat containing, X-linked 6
Mus musculus Mouse [7] 82.0% 301 armadillo repeat containing, X-linked 6
Takifugu rubripes Tetradontoidea [8] 66.0% 818 aryl hydrocarbon receptor 2C
Caenorhabditis elegans C. elegans [9] 50.0% 332 Serpentine Receptor, class H family member (srh-216)
Saccharomyces cerevisiae Yeast [10] 70.0% 910 Hul5p
Gallus gallus Chicken [11] 52.0% 317 PREDICTED: hypothetical protein

Secondary Structure

The secondary structure of ARMCX6 is predicted to be similar to cyanase. A comparison of the two sequences is shown below.[2][3]

                          10        20        30        40
                ....*....|....*....|....*....|....*....|....*..
ARMCX6      231 MLAKSASDLKFPLISEGSGCAKVQVLKPLMGLSEKPVLAGELVGAQM 277
1DW9_A       19 LLSKAKKDLSFAEIADGTGLAEAFVTAALLGQQALPADAARLVGAKL 65
                 + +   ++ +  +  + + +   +   + +    +  +  ++++

Cyanase segment having identity with ARMCX6.

Expression

Microarray data show that ARMCX6 is highly expressed during earliest stages of spermatogenesis in mice.[4][5][6]

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