heat shock protein beta-7; HspB7; cardiovascular heat shock protein; cvHsp (HSPB7, CVHSP)

Function

• interacts with C-terminal domain of actin-binding protein 280

Structure

• belongs to the small heat shock protein (HSP20) family

Alternative splicing

named isoforms=3

Expression

• isoform 1 is highly expressed in adult & fetal heart, skeletal muscle
• low expression in adipose tissue & in aorta
• undetectable in other tissues
• very low expression of isoform 2 & isoform 3 in heart

More general terms

• heat shock protein

Database

• Entrez gene: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=gene&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=Graphics&list_uids=27129
• Kegg: http://www.genome.jp/dbget-bin/www_bget?hsa:27129
• OMIM: https://mirror.omim.org/entry/610692
• UniProt: http://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/Q9UBY9.html