androgen-induced protein 1 1 (AIG-1, AIG1)

Function

• role in androgen-regulated growth of hair follicles

Structure

• belongs to the AIG1 family

Compartment

membrane

Alternative splicing

named isoforms=5

Expression

• expressed in heart, ovary, testis, liver, & kidney > spleen, prostate, brain, skeletal muscle, pancreas, small intestine & colon
• not expressed in peripheral blood leukocytes, thymus, lung, placenta
• AIG1 expression is higher in hair follicles from males than from females
• induced by dihydrotestosterone

More general terms

• transmembrane 6 protein

Database

• OMIM: https://mirror.omim.org/entry/608514
• UniProt: http://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/Q9NVV5.html