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Nexin is a protein that prevents microtubules in the outer layer of axonemes from movement with respect to each other. Otherwise vesicular transport proteins such as dynein would dissolve the whole structure.1
Sorting nexin
Sorting nexins are a large group of proteins with the common characteristic of having a PX domain (a phospholipid-binding motif).2
Such nexins are transcribed from the following genes:
- SNX1, SNX2, SNX3, SNX4, SNX5, SNX6, SNX7, SNX8, SNX9, SNX10,
- SNX11, SNX12, SNX13, SNX14, SNX15, SNX16, SNX17, SNX18, SNX19
- SNX21, SNX22, SNX24, SNX25, SNX26, SNX27, SNX29
- SNX31, SNX32, SNX33
References
- ^ Walter F., PhD. Boron (2003). Medical Physiology: A Cellular And Molecular Approaoch. Elsevier/Saunders, 1300. ISBN 1-4160-2328-3. Page 26
- ^ Worby CA, Dixon JE (2002). "Sorting out the cellular functions of sorting nexins". Nat. Rev. Mol. Cell Biol. 3 (12): 919–31. doi:. PMID 12461558.
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