DnaJ homolog subfamily C member 5; cysteine string protein; CSP (DNAJC5, CSP)

Function

• may have an important role in presynaptic function
• may be involved in Ca+2-dependent neurotransmitter release at nerve endings (putative)
• fatty acylated
• heavily palmitoylated in the cysteine string motif (putative)

Structure

contains 1 J domain

Compartment

• membrane; lipid-anchor (putative)
• melanosome; identified by mass spectrometry in melanosome fractions from stage 1 to stage 4

Alternative splicing

named isoforms=2

Expression

• expressed in pancreas, kidney, skeletal muscle, liver, lung, placenta, brain & heart

More general terms

• lipoprotein
• DNAJ homolog subfamily C
• phosphoprotein

Database

• Entrez gene: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=gene&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=Graphics&list_uids=80331
• Kegg: http://www.genome.jp/dbget-bin/www_bget?hsa:80331
• OMIM: https://mirror.omim.org/entry/611203
• UniProt: http://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/Q9H3Z4.html