homeobox protein orthopedia (OTP)

Function

• role in differentiation of hypothalamic neuroendocrine cells

Structure

• belongs to the paired homeobox family, Bicoid subfamily
• contains 1 homeobox DNA-binding domain
• contains 1 OAR domain

Compartment

nucleus

Expression

• present in fetal hypothalamus at 19 weeks of gestation (at protein level

More general terms

• homeobox protein

Database

• OMIM: https://mirror.omim.org/entry/604529
• UniProt: http://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/Q5XKR4.html