VPS13D explained

Vacuolar protein sorting-associated protein 13D is a protein that in humans is encoded by the VPS13D gene.^[1]

This gene encodes a protein belonging to the vacuolar-protein-sorting-13 gene family. In yeast, vacuolar-protein-sorting-13 proteins are involved in trafficking of membrane proteins between the trans-Golgi network and the prevacuolar compartment.

While several transcript variants may exist for this gene, the full-length natures of only two have been described to date. These two represent the major variants of this gene and encode distinct isoforms.

Further reading

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• Yu W, Andersson B, Worley KC, etal . Large-Scale Concatenation cDNA Sequencing . Genome Res. . 7 . 4 . 353–8 . 1997 . 9110174 . 10.1101/gr.7.4.353. 139146 .
• Seki N, Ohira M, Nagase T, etal . Characterization of cDNA clones in size-fractionated cDNA libraries from human brain . DNA Res. . 4 . 5 . 345–9 . 1998 . 9455484 . 10.1093/dnares/4.5.345 . free .
• Nakayama M, Kikuno R, Ohara O . Protein–Protein Interactions Between Large Proteins: Two-Hybrid Screening Using a Functionally Classified Library Composed of Long cDNAs . Genome Res. . 12 . 11 . 1773–84 . 2003 . 12421765 . 10.1101/gr.406902 . 187542 .
• Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH, etal . Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences . Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. . 99 . 26 . 16899–903 . 2003 . 12477932 . 10.1073/pnas.242603899 . 139241 . 2002PNAS...9916899M . free .
• Ota T, Suzuki Y, Nishikawa T, etal . Complete sequencing and characterization of 21,243 full-length human cDNAs . Nat. Genet. . 36 . 1 . 40–5 . 2004 . 14702039 . 10.1038/ng1285 . free .
• Gerhard DS, Wagner L, Feingold EA, etal . The Status, Quality, and Expansion of the NIH Full-Length cDNA Project: The Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC) . Genome Res. . 14 . 10B . 2121–7 . 2004 . 15489334 . 10.1101/gr.2596504 . 528928 .
• Velayos-Baeza A, Vettori A, Copley RR, etal . Analysis of the human VPS13 gene family . Genomics . 84 . 3 . 536–49 . 2005 . 15498460 . 10.1016/j.ygeno.2004.04.012 .
• Gregory SG, Barlow KF, McLay KE, etal . The DNA sequence and biological annotation of human chromosome 1 . Nature . 441 . 7091 . 315–21 . 2006 . 16710414 . 10.1038/nature04727 . 2006Natur.441..315G . free .

Notes and References

1. Web site: Entrez Gene: VPS13D vacuolar protein sorting 13 homolog D (S. cerevisiae).