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Background
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The kelch-repeat protein family is a recently found new kind of actin-binding protein. It is characterized by tandemly arranged motifs of about 50 amino acids. Most members of the kelch-repeat family were cytoskeletal proteins implicated in various cellular processes, such as actin cytoskeleton interaction, cytoplasmic sequestration of transcription factors and cell morphology. During the large-scale sequencing analysis of a human fetal brain cDNA library we found a novel kelch-like protein gene 5, KLHL5, KLHL5 has high identity with Drosophila kelch protein and many other family members. A novel splicing variants of KLHL5, named KLHL5b and the expression pattern of KLHL5b in many tissues.
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Protein Size: 709
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