| SPTBN4 | 
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| Identifiers | 
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| Aliases | SPTBN4, QV, SPNB4, SPTBN3, spectrin beta, non-erythrocytic 4, CMND, NEDHND | 
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| External IDs | OMIM: 606214; MGI: 1890574; HomoloGene: 11879; GeneCards: SPTBN4; OMA:SPTBN4 - orthologs | 
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| | Gene location (Mouse) | 
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 |  |  | Chr. | Chromosome 7 (mouse) | 
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 |  |  | Band | 7 A3|7 15.88 cM | Start | 27,055,808 bp | 
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 | End | 27,147,111 bp | 
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| | RNA expression pattern | 
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 | Bgee | | Human | Mouse (ortholog) | 
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 | | Top expressed in |  | right hemisphere of cerebellum
 right frontal lobe
 Brodmann area 9
 anterior cingulate cortex
 prefrontal cortex
 nucleus accumbens
 caudate nucleus
 putamen
 Amygdala
 pituitary gland
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 | | Top expressed in |  | superior frontal gyrus
 primary visual cortex
 cerebellar cortex
 nucleus of stria terminalis
 central gray substance of midbrain
 dentate gyrus of hippocampal formation granule cell
 subiculum
 piriform cortex
 nucleus accumbens
 cerebellar vermis
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| Wikidata | 
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Spectrin, beta, non-erythrocytic 4, also known as SPTBN4, is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SPTBN4 gene.
Spectrin is an actin crosslinking and molecular scaffold protein that links the cell membrane to the actin cytoskeleton, and functions in the determination of cell shape, arrangement of transmembrane proteins, and organization of organelles. It is composed of two antiparallel dimers of alpha- and beta- subunits. This gene is one member of a family of beta-spectrin genes. The encoded protein localizes to the nuclear matrix, PML nuclear bodies, and cytoplasmic vesicles. A highly similar gene in mice is required for localization of specific membrane proteins in polarized regions of neurons. Multiple transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been found for this gene.