ID:IF_HUMAN DESCRIPTION: RecName: Full=Gastric intrinsic factor; AltName: Full=Intrinsic factor; Short=IF; Short=INF; Flags: Precursor; FUNCTION: Promotes absorption of the essential vitamin cobalamin (Cbl) in the ileum. After interaction with CUBN, the GIF-cobalamin complex is internalized via receptor-mediated endocytosis. SUBUNIT: Interacts with CUBN (via CUB domains). SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: Secreted. TISSUE SPECIFICITY: Gastric mucosa. DISEASE: Defects in GIF are the cause of hereditary intrinsic factor deficiency (IFD) [MIM:261000]; also known as congenital pernicious anemia. IFD is an autosomal recessive disorder characterized by megaloblastic anemia. SIMILARITY: Belongs to the eukaryotic cobalamin transport proteins family. WEB RESOURCE: Name=GeneReviews; URL="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/GeneTests/lab/gene/GIF"; WEB RESOURCE: Name=Wikipedia; Note=Intrinsic factor entry; URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrinsic_factor";
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 P27352
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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.