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Full name: |
IQ motif containing GTPase activating protein 3 |
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Swissprot: |
Q86VI3 |
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Gene Accession: |
BC131536 |
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Purity: |
>85%, as determined by Coomassie blue stained SDS-PAGE |
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Expression system: |
Escherichia coli |
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Tags: |
His tag C-Terminus, GST tag N-Terminus |
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Background: |
IQGAP3 (IQ motif containing GTPase activating protein 3) is a 1,631 amino acid protein that acts as an effector of Cdc42 and Rac 1, linking their activation to the cytoskeleton during neuronal morphogenesis. A novel member of the IQGAP family, IQGAP3 is highly expressed in brain where it localizes to axons of hippocampal neurons. IQGAP3 contains one Ras-GAP domain, a CH (calponin-homology) domain, four IQ domains and is encoded by a gene located on human chromosome 1, which spans 260 million base pairs, contains over 3,000 genes and comprises nearly 8% of the human genome. Chromosome 1 houses a large number of disease-associated genes, including those that are involved in familial adenomatous polyposis, Stickler syndrome, Parkinson’s disease, Gaucher disease, schizophrenia and Usher syndrome. Aberrations in chromosome 1 are found in a variety of cancers, including head and neck cancer, malignant melanoma and multiple myeloma. |
