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Facts about Keratin, type II cytoskeletal 75.
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| Human | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | KRT75 |
| Uniprot: | O95678 |
| Entrez: | 9119 |

| Belongs to: |
|---|
| intermediate filament family |

CK-75; cytokeratin-75; hK6hf; K6HFcytokeratin type II; K75; KB18; keratin 75; keratin, type II cytoskeletal 75; Keratin-6 hair follicle; keratin-75; PFB; type II keratin-18; Type II keratin-K6hf; Type-II keratin Kb18
Mass (kDA):
59.56 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 12q13.13 |
| Sequence: | 12; NC_000012.12 (52424070..52434371, complement) |
Highly expressed in hair follicles from scalp. Specifically expressed in the of the hair companion layer follicle, a single layered band of flat and vertically oriented cells between the cuboidal outer root sheath (ORS) cells and the inner root sheath (IRS) that stretches from the lowermost bulb region to the isthmus of the follicle. Also expressed in medullated hairs. In nails, it is almost exclusively present in the nail bed (at protein level).



PMID: 9856802 by Winter H., et al. A novel human type II cytokeratin, K6hf, specifically expressed in the companion layer of the hair follicle.
PMID: 10692104 by Rogers M.A., et al. Characterization of a 300 kbp region of human DNA containing the type II hair keratin.