Processes & Diseases

Processes involved: protrusion, polarity

Pfam Domain Structure

From ACTB (human)

Members of the ACTB ortholog set

	Human	Mouse	Rat	Chicken	Fly	Worm
CMKB	ACTB	Actb	Actb	-	Act57B	act-2
Entrez Gene	60	11461	81822	-	37368	179534
Uniprot	ACTB_HUMAN	ACTB_MOUSE	ACTB_RAT	-	ACT3_DROME	ACT2_CAEEL
OMIM	102630	-	-	-	-	-
Reagents	-	-	-	-	-	-
Results	4 available	2 available	-	-	2 available	-

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