DST Proteins

Protein Information

As basal cells of stratified squamous epithelia begin to migrate in response to wound healing, they lose their cell-substrate adhesion junctions, the hemidesmosomes. The hemidesmosome is an adhesion structure of the epidermal-dermal junction in keratinocytes. When keratinocytes migrate laterally or upward to differentiate they must control the formation and disintegration of the hemidesmosomes. The bullous pemphigoid antigen BPAG1 is a hemidesmosomal protein of the cutaneous basement membrane zone. The primary sequence deduced from full-length human cDNAs predicts that this molecule consists of a central rod region and flanking globular domains. A neuronal isoform, BPAG1n3 is the result of differential splicing of BPAG1. BPAG1n3 is distinguished by its initial 32 amino acid residues and by the absence of the amino-terminal half of the actin-binding domain.

Synonyms

230 kDa bullous pemphigoid antigen; 230/240 kDa bullous pemphigoid antigen; 2310001O04Rik; A830042E19Rik; ah; athetoid; AW554249; BP230; BP240; BPA; Bpag; Bpag1; BPAG1-n; Bullous pemphigoid antigen 1; bullous pemphigoid antigen 1, isoform 5; bullous pemphigoid antigen 1, isoforms 1/2/3/4; bullous pemphigoid antigen 1, isoforms 6/7; CATX15; CATX-15; D6S1101; DMH; DST; DT; Dystonia musculorum protein; dystonin; EBSB2; Hemidesmosomal plaque protein; HSAN6; KIAA0728; Macf2; Microtubule actin cross-linking factor 2; mKIAA0728; nmf203; nmf339; trabeculin-beta