Calcyphosin is a
protein that in humans is encoded by the ''CAPS''
gene.
Function
This gene encodes a
calcium-binding protein, which may play a role in the regulation of
ion transport
In biology, a transporter is a transmembrane protein that moves ions (or other small molecules) across a biological membrane to accomplish many different biological functions including, cellular communication, maintaining homeostasis, energy produc ...
. A similar protein was first described as a potentially important regulatory protein in the dog thyroid and was termed as R2D5 antigen in rabbit.
Alternative splicing
Alternative splicing, or alternative RNA splicing, or differential splicing, is an alternative splicing process during gene expression that allows a single gene to code for multiple proteins. In this process, particular exons of a gene may be ...
of this gene generates two transcript variants.
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EF-hand-containing proteins