tweety homolog 1 (hTTY1, TTYH1)

Function

• probable chloride channel
• may be involved in cell adhesion (putative)
• isoform 3 may be a Ca+2-independent & swelling-activated chloride channel, possibly involved in regulation of cell volume

Structure

belongs to the tweety family

Compartment

cell membrane

Alternative splicing

named isoforms=5

Expression

• expressed in brain, eye, ovary & testis, > muscle, placenta, liver & lung

More general terms

• tweety homolog
• phosphoprotein
• glycoprotein
• transmembrane 5 protein

Database

• OMIM: https://mirror.omim.org/entry/605784
• UniProt: http://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/Q9H313.html
• Entrez gene: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=gene&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=Graphics&list_uids=57348