aladin (adracalin, AAAS, ADRACALA, GL003)

Function

• role in the normal development of the peripheral & central nervous system

Structure

• contains 4 WD repeats

Expression

• widely expressed
• abundantly expressed in cerebellum, corpus callosum, adrenal gland, pituary gland, gatsrointestinal structures & fetal lung

Pathology

• defects in AAAS are the cause of achalasia-addisonianism-alacrima syndrome

More general terms

• WD repeat protein family

Database

• OMIM: https://mirror.omim.org/entry/231550
• OMIM: https://mirror.omim.org/entry/605378
• UniProt: http://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/Q9NRG9.html