Archain is a human protein ithat is
encoded
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by
gene
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which is locatedd on
chromosome 11
Chromosome 11 is one of the 23 pairs of chromosomes in humans. Humans normally have two copies of this chromosome. Chromosome 11 spans about 135 million base pairs (the building material of DNA) and represents between 4 and 4.5 percent of the tot ...
.
Also known as ARCN1, it plays a role in eukaryotic cell biology.
It is part of the
COPI
COPI is a coatomer, a protein complex that coats vesicles transporting proteins from the ''cis'' end of the Golgi complex
The Golgi apparatus (), also known as the Golgi complex, Golgi body, or simply the Golgi, is an organelle found in most ...
coatomer
The coatomer is a protein complex that coats membrane-bound transport vesicles. Two types of coatomers are known:
* COPI (retrograde transport from trans-Golgi network to cis-Golgi network and endoplasmic reticulum)
*COPII (anterograde transpor ...
complex.
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Peripheral membrane proteins
Genes on human chromosome 11
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