collagen 23 alpha-1 (COL23A1)

Function

• undergoes proteolytic cleavage by furin protease to yield a 60 kD soluble form that forms an homotrimer & exhibits a low affinity interaction with heparin

Structure

• contains 5 collagen-like domains
• homotrimer

Compartment

membrane

Alternative splicing

named isoforms=2

More general terms

• collagen subunit

Database

• Entrez gene: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=gene&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=Graphics&list_uids=91522
• Kegg: http://www.genome.jp/dbget-bin/www_bget?hsa:91522
• OMIM: https://mirror.omim.org/entry/610043
• UniProt: http://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/Q86Y22.html