ID:PCDH8_HUMAN DESCRIPTION: RecName: Full=Protocadherin-8; AltName: Full=Arcadlin; Flags: Precursor; FUNCTION: Calcium-dependent cell-adhesion protein (By similarity). May play a role in activity-induced synaptic reorganization underlying long term memory (By similarity). Could be involved in CDH2 internalization through TAOK2/p38 MAPK pathway. In hippocampal neurons, may play a role in the down-regulation of dendritic spines, maybe through its action on CDH2 endocytosis (By similarity). SUBUNIT: The N-terminal extracellular domain forms homophilic interactions; these interactions activate p38 MAPK via TAOK2 and trigger endocytosis (By similarity). Interacts with CDH2; this interaction may lead to CDH2 cointernalization (By similarity). Interacts with CDH11 (By similarity). Interacts with TAOK2 (By similarity). SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: Cell membrane; Single-pass type I membrane protein (By similarity). Cell projection, dendrite (By similarity). Cell junction, synapse, presynaptic cell membrane. Cell junction, synapse, postsynaptic cell membrane. Note=Also expressed in neuronal cell bodies (By similarity). Localized to excitatory, but not with inhibitory, synapses (By similarity). SIMILARITY: Contains 6 cadherin domains.
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 O95206
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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.
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