HOXD8

HOXD8
Identifiers
Aliases	HOXD8, HOX4, HOX4E, HOX5.4, homeobox D8
External IDs	MGI: 96209 HomoloGene: 10473 GeneCards: HOXD8
Gene ontology Molecular function • transcription factor activity, sequence-specific DNA binding • RNA polymerase II regulatory region sequence-specific DNA binding • DNA binding • sequence-specific DNA binding • transcriptional activator activity, RNA polymerase II transcription regulatory region sequence-specific binding Cellular component • nucleus Biological process • anterior/posterior pattern specification • multicellular organism development • anterior/posterior axis specification, embryo • regulation of transcription, DNA-templated • negative regulation of transcription from RNA polymerase II promoter • positive regulation of transcription from RNA polymerase II promoter • skeletal system morphogenesis • transcription, DNA-templated • transcription from RNA polymerase II promoter Sources:Amigo / QuickGO
RNA expression pattern
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Orthologs
Species	Human	Mouse
Entrez	3234	15437
Ensembl	ENSG00000175879	ENSMUSG00000027102
UniProt	P13378	P23463
RefSeq (mRNA)	NM_019558 NM_001199746 NM_001199747	NM_001290730 NM_001290731 NM_008276
RefSeq (protein)	NP_001186675.1 NP_062458.1	NP_032302.2
Location (UCSC)	Chr 2: 176.13 – 176.13 Mb	Chr 2: 74.7 – 74.71 Mb
PubMed search	[1]	[2]
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Homeobox protein Hox-D8 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the HOXD8 gene.^[3][4][5]

This gene belongs to the homeobox family of genes. The homeobox genes encode a highly conserved family of transcription factors that play an important role in morphogenesis in all multicellular organisms. Mammals possess four similar homeobox gene clusters, HOXA, HOXB, HOXC and HOXD, located on different chromosomes, consisting of 9 to 11 genes arranged in tandem. This gene is one of several homeobox HOXD genes located in a cluster on chromosome 2. Deletions that remove the entire HOXD gene cluster or the 5' end of this cluster have been associated with severe limb and genital abnormalities. In addition to effects during embryogenesis, this particular gene may also play a role in adult urogenital tract function.^[5]

References

1. "Human PubMed Reference:".
2. "Mouse PubMed Reference:".
3. McAlpine PJ, Shows TB (Aug 1990). "Nomenclature for human homeobox genes". Genomics. 7 (3): 460. doi:10.1016/0888-7543(90)90186-X. PMID 1973146.
4. Scott MP (Dec 1992). "Vertebrate homeobox gene nomenclature". Cell. 71 (4): 551–3. doi:10.1016/0092-8674(92)90588-4. PMID 1358459.
5. "Entrez Gene: HOXD8 homeobox D8".

Further reading

• Goodman FR (2003). "Limb malformations and the human HOX genes.". Am. J. Med. Genet. 112 (3): 256–65. doi:10.1002/ajmg.10776. PMID 12357469.
• Redline RW, Williams AJ, Patterson P, Collins T (1992). "Human HOX4E: a gene strongly expressed in the adult male and female urogenital tracts.". Genomics. 13 (2): 425–30. doi:10.1016/0888-7543(92)90263-R. PMID 1351871.
• Oliver G, Sidell N, Fiske W, et al. (1989). "Complementary homeo protein gradients in developing limb buds.". Genes Dev. 3 (5): 641–50. doi:10.1101/gad.3.5.641. PMID 2568311.
• Manohar CF, Salwen HR, Furtado MR, Cohn SL (1996). "Up-regulation of HOXC6, HOXD1, and HOXD8 homeobox gene expression in human neuroblastoma cells following chemical induction of differentiation.". Tumour Biol. 17 (1): 34–47. doi:10.1159/000217965. PMID 7501971.
• Guazzi S, Lonigro R, Pintonello L, et al. (1994). "The thyroid transcription factor-1 gene is a candidate target for regulation by Hox proteins". EMBO J. 13 (14): 3339–47. PMC 395231. PMID 7913891.
• Rosen DR, Brown RH (1993). "Dinucleotide repeat polymorphism in the HOX4E locus". Hum. Mol. Genet. 2 (5): 617. doi:10.1093/hmg/2.5.617. PMID 8100165.
• Del Campo M, Jones MC, Veraksa AN, et al. (1999). "Monodactylous limbs and abnormal genitalia are associated with hemizygosity for the human 2q31 region that includes the HOXD cluster". Am. J. Hum. Genet. 65 (1): 104–10. doi:10.1086/302467. PMC 1378080. PMID 10364522.
• Limongi MZ, Pelliccia F, Gaddini L, Rocchi A (2000). "Clustering of two fragile sites and seven homeobox genes in human chromosome region 2q31→q32.1". Cytogenet. Cell Genet. 90 (1–2): 151–3. doi:10.1159/000015651. PMID 11060466.
• Kosaki K, Kosaki R, Suzuki T, et al. (2002). "Complete mutation analysis panel of the 39 human HOX genes". Teratology. 65 (2): 50–62. doi:10.1002/tera.10009. PMID 11857506.
• Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH, et al. (2003). "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. doi:10.1073/pnas.242603899. PMC 139241. PMID 12477932.

External links

• HOXD8 protein, human at the US National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

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