EQTN

Equatorin, sperm acrosome associated is a protein that in humans is encoded by the EQTN gene.[5]

EQTN
Identifiers
Aliases	EQTN, AFAF, C9orf11, SPACA8, equatorin
External IDs	OMIM: 617653 MGI: 1915003 HomoloGene: 75250 GeneCards: EQTN
Gene location (Human) Chr. Chromosome 9 (human)[1] Band 9p21.2 Start 27,284,654 bp[1] End 27,297,150 bp[1]
Gene location (Mouse) Chr. Chromosome 4 (mouse)[2] Band 4|4 C5 Start 94,907,267 bp[2] End 94,928,843 bp[2]
Orthologs
Species	Human	Mouse
Entrez	54586	67753
Ensembl	ENSG00000120160	ENSMUSG00000028575
UniProt	Q9NQ60	Q9D9V2
RefSeq (mRNA)	NM_001161585 NM_020641	NM_001290623 NM_027089
RefSeq (protein)	NP_001155057 NP_065692	NP_001277552 NP_081365
Location (UCSC)	Chr 9: 27.28 – 27.3 Mb	Chr 4: 94.91 – 94.93 Mb
PubMed search	[3]	[4]
Wikidata
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References

1. GRCh38: Ensembl release 89: ENSG00000120160 - Ensembl, May 2017
2. GRCm38: Ensembl release 89: ENSMUSG00000028575 - Ensembl, May 2017
3. "Human PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
4. "Mouse PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
5. "Entrez Gene: Equatorin, sperm acrosome associated".

Further reading

• Ruiz A, Pujana MA, Estivill X (December 2000). "Isolation and characterisation of a novel human gene (C9orf11) on chromosome 9p21, a region frequently deleted in human cancer". Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Gene Structure and Expression. 1517 (1): 128–34. doi:10.1016/S0167-4781(00)00272-4. PMID 11118625.
• Li YC, Hu XQ, Zhang KY, Guo J, Hu ZY, Tao SX, Xiao LJ, Wang QZ, Han CS, Liu YX (July 2006). "Afaf, a novel vesicle membrane protein, is related to acrosome formation in murine testis". FEBS Letters. 580 (17): 4266–73. doi:10.1016/j.febslet.2006.06.010. PMID 16831425.
• Laaksovirta H, Peuralinna T, Schymick JC, Scholz SW, Lai SL, Myllykangas L, Sulkava R, Jansson L, Hernandez DG, Gibbs JR, Nalls MA, Heckerman D, Tienari PJ, Traynor BJ (October 2010). "Chromosome 9p21 in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in Finland: a genome-wide association study". The Lancet. Neurology. 9 (10): 978–85. doi:10.1016/S1474-4422(10)70184-8. PMC 2965392. PMID 20801718.