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Facts about Intraflagellar transport protein 140 homolog.
Required for the development and maintenance of the outer segments of rod and cone photoreceptor cells. Plays a role in maintenance and the delivery of opsin to the outer segment of photoreceptor cells (By similarity).
| Human | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | IFT140 |
| Uniprot: | Q96RY7 |
| Entrez: | 9742 |

| Belongs to: |
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| No superfamily |

Intraflagellar transport protein 140 homolog
Mass (kDA):
165.193 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 16p13.3 |
| Sequence: | 16; NC_000016.10 (1510427..1612072, complement) |
Cytoplasm, cytoskeleton, cilium basal body. Cytoplasm, cytoskeleton, microtubule organizing center, centrosome. Cell projection, cilium.



PMID: 20889716 by Mukhopadhyay S., et al. TULP3 bridges the IFT-A complex and membrane phosphoinositides to promote trafficking of G protein-coupled receptors into primary cilia.
PMID: 22503633 by Perrault I., et al. Mainzer-Saldino syndrome is a ciliopathy caused by IFT140 mutations.