Primary Information
BoMiProt ID	Bomi87
Protein Name	Tektin-2
Organism	Bos taurus
Uniprot ID	Q2T9Q6
Milk Fraction	MFGM
Ref Sequence ID	NP_001033192.1
Aminoacid Length	430
Molecular Weight	49886
FASTA Sequence	Download
Gene Name	TEKT2
Gene ID	514463
Protein Existence Status	Reviewed: Experimental evidence at transcript level
Secondary Information
Presence in other biological fluids/tissue/cells	found throughout the eukaryotes apart from higher plants
Protein Function	Essential for the construction of cilia and flagella; related to intermediate filament (IF) proteins and nuclear lamins; presence of longitudinal repeating pattern of hydrophobic and charged amino acids
Biochemical Properties	Insoluble α-helical proteins; variable amino- and carboxy-terminal head and tail domains
Site(s) of PTM(s) N-glycosylation, O-glycosylation, Phosphorylation
Predicted Disorder Regions	NA
DisProt Annotation
TM Helix Prediction	No TM helices
Linking IDs
Bibliography	1. Linck, R. W. (1976). Flagellar doublet microtubules: fractionation of minor components and alpha-tubulin from specific regions of the A-tubule. Journal of Cell Science, 20(2), 405–439. Retrieved from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1262413. 2. Norrander, J. M., Amos, L. A., & Linck, R. W. (1992). Primary structure of tektin A1: comparison with intermediate-filament proteins and a model for its association with tubulin. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 89(18), 8567–8571. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.89.18.8567. 3. McLachlan, A. D., & Stewart, M. (1982). Periodic charge distribution in the intermediate filament proteins desmin and vimentin. Journal of Molecular Biology, 162(3), 693–698. https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-2836(82)90396-5. 4. Parry, D. A. D., Strelkov, S. V, Burkhard, P., Aebi, U., & Herrmann, H. (2007). Towards a molecular description of intermediate filament structure and assembly. Experimental Cell Research, 313(10), 2204–2216. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yexcr.2007.04.009.