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Collagen alpha-1(XIII) chain

Function

Involved in cell-matrix and cell-cell adhesion interactions that are required for normal development. May participate in the linkage between muscle fiber and basement membrane. May play a role in endochondral ossification of bone and branching morphogenesis of lung. Binds heparin. At neuromuscular junctions, may play a role in acetylcholine receptor clustering (PubMed:26626625).

Involvement in disease

Myasthenic syndrome, congenital, 19

CMS19

A form of congenital myasthenic syndrome, a group of disorders characterized by failure of neuromuscular transmission, including pre-synaptic, synaptic, and post-synaptic disorders that are not of autoimmune origin. Clinical features are easy fatigability and muscle weakness affecting the axial and limb muscles (with hypotonia in early-onset forms), the ocular muscles (leading to ptosis and ophthalmoplegia), and the facial and bulbar musculature (affecting sucking and swallowing, and leading to dysphonia). The symptoms fluctuate and worsen with physical effort.

None

The disease is caused by variants affecting the gene represented in this entry.

Tissue specificity

Widely expressed in both fetal and adult ocular tissues (at protein level). In the eye, expression is accentuated in the ciliary muscle, optic nerve and the neural retina. In early placenta, localized to fibroblastoid stromal cells of the placental villi, to endothelial cells of developing capillaries and to cells of the cytotrophoblastic columns. Also detected in large decidual cells of the decidual membrane and to stromal cells of the gestational endometrium, but not in the epithelial cells in the endometrial glands. Isoform 10: Expressed in muscle (PubMed:26626625).

Cellular localization

  • Cell membrane
  • Single-pass type II membrane protein
  • Postsynaptic cell membrane

Alternative names

Collagen alpha-1(XIII) chain, COLXIIIA1, COL13A1

Target type

Proteins

Primary research area

Immuno-oncology

Molecular weight

69950Da

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