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RP1

Oxygen-regulated protein 1 also known as retinitis pigmentosa 1 protein (RP1) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the RP1 gene.[1][2]

Function

Function

Initially named for its response to in vivo retinal oxygen levels (designated ORP1 for ‘oxygen-regulated protein-1’), this gene was subsequently linked to autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa and was renamed RP1 for ‘retinitis pigmentosa 1’. The data suggest that mutations in this gene cause dominant RP, and that the encoded protein has an important but unknown role in photoreceptor biology.[2]

References

References

  1. Blanton SH, Heckenlively JR, Cottingham AW, Friedman J, Sadler LA, Wagner M, Friedman LH, Daiger SP (Mar 1992). “Linkage mapping of autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa (RP1) to the pericentric region of human chromosome 8”. Genomics. 11 (4): 857–69. doi:10.1016/0888-7543(91)90008-3. PMID 1783394.
  2. 2.0 2.1 “Entrez Gene: RP1 retinitis pigmentosa 1 (autosomal dominant)”.
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