Wap whey acidic protein [Mus musculus (house mouse)] - Gene

Summary

Official Symbol: Wapprovided by MGI
Official Full Name: whey acidic proteinprovided by MGI
Primary source: MGI:MGI:98943
See related: Ensembl:ENSMUSG00000000381 AllianceGenome:MGI:98943
Gene type: protein coding
RefSeq status: VALIDATED
Organism: Mus musculus
Lineage: Eukaryota; Metazoa; Chordata; Craniata; Vertebrata; Euteleostomi; Mammalia; Eutheria; Euarchontoglires; Glires; Rodentia; Myomorpha; Muroidea; Muridae; Murinae; Mus; Mus
Summary: Enables nutrient reservoir activity. Predicted to be involved in antibacterial humoral response and innate immune response. Located in extracellular region. Is expressed in mammary gland. [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Dec 2024]
Expression: Low expression observed in reference dataset See more
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Genomic context

Location:: 11 A1; 11 4.61 cM

Exon count:: 4

Annotation release	Status	Assembly	Chr	Location
RS_2024_02	current	GRCm39 (GCF_000001635.27)	11	NC_000077.7 (6585483..6588654, complement)
108.20200622	previous assembly	GRCm38.p6 (GCF_000001635.26)	11	NC_000077.6 (6635483..6638654, complement)

Chromosome 11 - NC_000077.7 Genomic Context describing neighboring genes

Genomic regions, transcripts, and products

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Genomic Sequence:

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Expression

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Project title: Mouse ENCODE transcriptome data
Description: RNA profiling data sets generated by the Mouse ENCODE project.
BioProject: PRJNA66167
Publication: PMID 25409824
Analysis date: n/a

Bibliography

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GeneRIFs: Gene References Into Functions

What's a GeneRIF?

Data show demonstrated that the Wap-rtTA knockin allele allows a tightly controlled temporal and spatial expression of transgenes in the mammary gland in a ligand-inducible manneer.
Title: Longitudinal analysis of mammogenesis using a novel tetracycline-inducible mouse model and in vivo imaging.
milk protein genes are subject to nuclear repositioning when activated, in agreement with a role for nuclear architecture in gene regulation, but that they behave differently as a function of their chromosomal context
Title: The nuclear localization of WAP and CSN genes is modified by lactogenic hormones in HC11 cells.
tight regulation of WAP gene expression parallels variations in the chromatin structure and DNA methylation profile throughout the Ramp3-WAP-Tbrg4 locus.
Title: Epigenetic modifications and chromatin loop organization explain the different expression profiles of the Tbrg4, WAP and Ramp3 genes.
May be essential for adequate nourishment of growing young rodents, which triple in size within the first 10 days of lactation.
Title: Expression of the whey acidic protein (Wap) is necessary for adequate nourishment of the offspring but not functional differentiation of mammary epithelial cells.
Wap regulates the proliferation of mammary epithelial cells by preventing serine protease from degrading laminin.
Title: Whey acidic protein (WAP) regulates the proliferation of mammary epithelial cells by preventing serine protease from degrading laminin.
WAP plays a negative regulatory role in the cell-cycle progression of mammary epithelial cells through an autocrine/paracrine mechanism.
Title: Inhibitory function of whey acidic protein in the cell-cycle progression of mouse mammary epithelial cells (EpH4/K6 cells).

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Variation

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Alleles

Alleles of this type are documented at Mouse Genome Informatics (MGI)

Endonuclease-mediated (1)
Targeted (3) 1 citation

General gene information

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Markers

Wap (e-PCR), detects polymorphism
- UniSTS:144765

Gene Ontology Provided by MGI

Function	Evidence Code	Pubs
enables nutrient reservoir activity	IMP Inferred from Mutant Phenotype more info	PubMed
enables peptidase inhibitor activity	IEA Inferred from Electronic Annotation more info
enables serine-type endopeptidase inhibitor activity	IBA Inferred from Biological aspect of Ancestor more info

Process	Evidence Code	Pubs
involved_in antibacterial humoral response	IBA Inferred from Biological aspect of Ancestor more info
involved_in innate immune response	IBA Inferred from Biological aspect of Ancestor more info

Component	Evidence Code	Pubs
located_in extracellular region	IDA Inferred from Direct Assay more info	PubMed
is_active_in extracellular space	IBA Inferred from Biological aspect of Ancestor more info

General protein information

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Preferred Names: whey acidic protein

NCBI Reference Sequences (RefSeq)

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RefSeqs maintained independently of Annotated Genomes

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These reference sequences are curated independently of the genome annotation cycle, so their versions may not match the RefSeq versions in the current genome build. Identify version mismatches by comparing the version of the RefSeq in this section to the one reported in Genomic regions, transcripts, and products above.

mRNA and Protein(s)

NM_011709.5 → NP_035839.3 whey acidic protein precursor

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Status: VALIDATED

Source sequence(s)

AL603787

Consensus CDS

CCDS24424.1

UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot

P01173, P70230, Q61023

UniProtKB/TrEMBL

Q7M748

Related

ENSMUSP00000099974.4, ENSMUST00000102910.4

Conserved Domains (1) summary

cd00199
Location:56 → 128

WAP; whey acidic protein-type four-disulfide core domains. Members of the family include whey acidic protein, elafin (elastase-specific inhibitor), caltrin-like protein (a calcium transport inhibitor) and other extracellular proteinase inhibitors. A group of ...

RefSeqs of Annotated Genomes: GCF_000001635.27-RS_2024_02

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Reference GRCm39 C57BL/6J

Genomic

NC_000077.7 Reference GRCm39 C57BL/6J

Range

6585483..6588654 complement

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mRNA and Protein(s)

XM_017314502.2 → XP_017169991.1 whey acidic protein isoform X1

UniProtKB/TrEMBL

Q3UQ94

Conserved Domains (1) summary

cd00199
Location:56 → 128

WAP; whey acidic protein-type four-disulfide core domains. Members of the family include whey acidic protein, elafin (elastase-specific inhibitor), caltrin-like protein (a calcium transport inhibitor) and other extracellular proteinase inhibitors. A group of ...