RAB38

RAB38
Identifiers
Aliases	RAB38, NY-MEL-1, rrGTPbp, member RAS oncogene family
External IDs	OMIM: 606281; MGI: 1919683; GeneCards: RAB38
Enzyme activity EC # BRENDA ExPASy KEGG MetaCyc 3.6.5.2 ↗ ↗ ↗ ↗
Gene location (Human) Chr. Chromosome 11 (human) Band 11q14.2 Start 88,113,251 bp End 88,175,443 bp
Gene location (Mouse) Chr. Chromosome 7 (mouse) Band 7 D3|7 49.19 cM Start 88,079,481 bp End 88,140,780 bp
RNA expression pattern Bgee Human Mouse (ortholog) Top expressed in gingival epithelium palpebral conjunctiva skin of thigh vulva human penis skin of abdomen hair follicle germinal epithelium oral cavity right adrenal cortex Top expressed in zygote primary oocyte secondary oocyte molar iris epidermis hair follicle skin of external ear skin of abdomen cornea More reference expression data BioGPS More reference expression data
Gene ontology Molecular function AP-2 adaptor complex binding nucleotide binding BLOC-2 complex binding GTP binding GTP-dependent protein binding protein binding AP-3 adaptor complex binding AP-1 adaptor complex binding GTPase activity Cellular component cytoplasm vesicle phagocytic vesicle membrane Golgi apparatus membrane melanosome plasma membrane early endosome phagocytic vesicle endoplasmic reticulum early endosome lumen cytoplasmic vesicle lysosome mitochondrion mitochondria associated membranes cytosol melanosome membrane trans-Golgi network Biological process protein localization to membrane platelet dense granule organization organelle organization phagosome acidification endosome to melanosome transport protein transport melanosome assembly mitochondrion organization vesicle-mediated transport small GTPase mediated signal transduction post-translational protein modification positive regulation of phosphatidylcholine biosynthetic process intracellular protein transport Rab protein signal transduction Sources:Amigo / QuickGO
Orthologs Databases NCBI: entry; OMA: entry Species Human Mouse Entrez 23682 72433 Ensembl ENSG00000123892 ENSMUSG00000030559 UniProt P57729 Q8QZZ8 RefSeq (mRNA) NM_022337 NM_028238 RefSeq (protein) NP_071732 NP_071732.1 NP_082514 Location (UCSC) Chr 11: 88.11 – 88.18 Mb Chr 7: 88.08 – 88.14 Mb PubMed search
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Ras-related protein Rab-38 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the RAB38 gene.

In melanocytic cells RAB38 gene expression may be regulated by MITF.

Further reading

• Chi A, Valencia JC, Hu ZZ, et al. (2007). "Proteomic and bioinformatic characterization of the biogenesis and function of melanosomes". J. Proteome Res. 5 (11): 3135–44. doi:10.1021/pr060363j. PMID 17081065.
• Barrios-Rodiles M, Brown KR, Ozdamar B, et al. (2005). "High-throughput mapping of a dynamic signaling network in mammalian cells". Science. 307 (5715): 1621–5. Bibcode:2005Sci...307.1621B. doi:10.1126/science.1105776. PMID 15761153. S2CID 39457788.
• Gerhard DS, Wagner L, Feingold EA, et al. (2004). "The Status, Quality, and Expansion of the NIH Full-Length cDNA Project: The Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC)". Genome Res. 14 (10B): 2121–7. doi:10.1101/gr.2596504. PMC 528928. PMID 15489334.
• Suzuki T, Miyamura Y, Inagaki K, Tomita Y (2004). "Characterization of the human RAB38 and RAB7 genes: exclusion of new major pathological loci for Japanese OCA". J. Dermatol. Sci. 32 (2): 131–6. doi:10.1016/S0923-1811(03)00071-9. PMID 12850305.
• Basrur V, Yang F, Kushimoto T, et al. (2003). "Proteomic analysis of early melanosomes: identification of novel melanosomal proteins". J. Proteome Res. 2 (1): 69–79. doi:10.1021/pr025562r. PMID 12643545.
• 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. Bibcode:2002PNAS...9916899M. doi:10.1073/pnas.242603899. PMC 139241. PMID 12477932.
• Osanai K, Iguchi M, Takahashi K, et al. (2001). "Expression and Localization of a Novel Rab Small G Protein (Rab38) in the Rat Lung". Am. J. Pathol. 158 (5): 1665–75. doi:10.1016/S0002-9440(10)64122-3. PMC 1891947. PMID 11337364.