kaptin (actin-associated protein 2E4, KPTN)

Function: - may be involved in actin dynamics - may play a role in producing the sensory apparatus in hair cells - may play a role in actin rearrangements that accompany platelet activation & stereocilia formation - associates with one end of F-actin filaments Compartment: - cytoplasm, perinuclear region, cell projection, stereocilium, growth cone - perinuclear at the tips of stereocilium in the inner ear - localized at sites of actin polymerization in motile f fibroblasts & neuronal growth cones

Properties

SIZE: MW = 48 kD entity length = 436 aa COMPARTMENT: cytoplasm cell nucleus

References

UniProt :accession Q9Y664