Melanophilin

MLPH
Identifiers
Aliases	MLPH, SLAC2-A, melanophilin
External IDs	OMIM: 606526; MGI: 2176380; HomoloGene: 11465; GeneCards: MLPH; OMA:MLPH - orthologs
Gene location (Human)
Chr.	Chromosome 2 (human)
End	237,555,322 bp
Gene location (Mouse)
Chr.	Chromosome 1 (mouse)
End	90,878,864 bp
RNA expression pattern
	Top expressed in
	pancreatic ductal cell; ; parotid gland; ; right uterine tube; ; canal of the cervix; ; right lung; ; olfactory zone of nasal mucosa; ; minor salivary glands; ; nasal epithelium; ; apex of heart; ; prostate;
	Top expressed in
	pyloric antrum; ; lacrimal gland; ; epithelium of stomach; ; mucous cell of stomach; ; salivary gland; ; submandibular gland; ; parotid gland; ; iris; ; decidua; ; Ileal epithelium;
	More reference expression data
	n/a
Gene ontology
Molecular function	protein binding; metal ion binding; actin binding; myosin binding; protein-macromolecule adaptor activity;
Cellular component	cytoplasm; perinuclear region of cytoplasm; dendrite; extracellular exosome; cortical actin cytoskeleton;
Biological process	intracellular protein transport; vesicle transport along actin filament; melanosome transport;
	Sources:Amigo / QuickGO
Orthologs
	79083
	171531
	ENSG00000115648
	ENSMUSG00000026303
	Q9BV36
	Q91V27
	NM_001042467; NM_001281473; NM_001281474; NM_024101
	NM_053015
	NP_001035932; NP_001268402; NP_001268403; NP_077006
	NP_443748
	Wikidata
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Melanophilin is a carrier protein which in humans is encoded by the MLPH gene. Several alternatively spliced transcript variants of this gene have been described, but the full-length nature of some of these variants has not been determined.