intraflagellar transport protein 172 homolog (IFT172, KIAA1179)

Function

• required for the maintenance & formation of cilia
• plays an indirect role in hedgehog (Hh) signaling, cilia may play a role in the hedgehog pathway
• interacts with IFT88 (putative)

Structure

• belongs to the IFT172 family
• contains 14 TPR repeats
• contains 9 WD repeats

Compartment

cell projection, cilium (putative)

Alternative splicing

named isoforms=2

More general terms

• WD repeat protein family

Database

• OMIM: https://mirror.omim.org/entry/607386
• UniProt: http://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/Q9UG01.html