Tuftelin

TUFT1
Identifiers
Aliases TUFT1, entrez:7286
External IDs OMIM: 600087 MGI: 109572 HomoloGene: 7985 GeneCards: TUFT1
Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez

7286

22156

Ensembl

ENSG00000143367

ENSMUSG00000005968

UniProt

Q9NNX1

O08970

RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_001126337
NM_001301317
NM_020127

NM_011656
NM_001293728

RefSeq (protein)

NP_001119809.1
NP_001288246.1
NP_064512.1

NP_035786.1

Location (UCSC) Chr 1: 151.54 – 151.58 Mb Chr 3: 94.61 – 94.66 Mb
PubMed search [1] [2]
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Tuftelin is an acidic phosphorylated glycoprotein found in tooth enamel. In humans, the Tuftelin protein is encoded by the TUFT1 gene.[3][4]

Function

This protein is formed for a short time during amelogenesis. The function of tuftelins is under contention, but it is proposed that it acts to start the mineralization process of enamel during tooth development.[5][6]

Other significant proteins in enamel are amelogenins, enamelins, and ameloblastins.

Research

The human encoding gene for tuftelin (TUFT1) was cloned by Profs. Dany Deutsch and Aharon Palmon from the Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Dental Medicine in Jerusalem.[4]

Interactions

Tuftelin has been shown to interact with TFIP11.[7]

References

  1. "Human PubMed Reference:".
  2. "Mouse PubMed Reference:".
  3. "Entrez Gene: TUFT1 tuftelin 1".
  4. 1 2 Deutsch D, Palmon A, Young MF, Selig S, Kearns WG, Fisher LW (July 1994). "Mapping of the human tuftelin (TUFT1) gene to chromosome 1 by fluorescence in situ hybridization". Mamm. Genome. 5 (7): 461–2. doi:10.1007/BF00357011. PMID 7919663.
  5. Deutsch D (June 1989). "Structure and function of enamel gene products". Anat. Rec. 224 (2): 189–210. doi:10.1002/ar.1092240209. PMID 2672884.
  6. Deutsch D, Palmon A, Fisher LW, Kolodny N, Termine JD, Young MF (August 1991). "Sequencing of bovine enamelin ("tuftelin") a novel acidic enamel protein". J. Biol. Chem. 266 (24): 16021–8. PMID 1874744.
  7. Paine, C T; Paine M L; Luo W; Okamoto C T; Lyngstadaas S P; Snead M L (July 2000). "A tuftelin-interacting protein (TIP39) localizes to the apical secretory pole of mouse ameloblasts". J. Biol. Chem. UNITED STATES. 275 (29): 22284–92. doi:10.1074/jbc.M000118200. ISSN 0021-9258. PMID 10806191.

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