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guca1bl

This is the community wiki page for the gene guca1bl please feel free to add any information that is relevant to this gene that is not already captured elsewhere in Xenbase.

nomenclature updates

Based on synteny ( conserved gene order) and reciprocal BLASTp matches to human GUCA1B (NP_002089.4), this gene has been renamed guca1b-like as it is not considered a true ortholg of human GUCA1B. This gene is only ~63% identical to the human protein.

X. tropicalis Entrez GeneID:100489509, is now considered the true GUCA1B orthologue, gucab1b, sharing 78% sequence identity to the human gene, and it sits tail-to-tail with guca1a on Chromsome 2, and is represented on XB-GENEPAGE-22172598.