Alternative titles; symbols
HGNC Approved Gene Symbol: JRKL
Cytogenetic location: 11q21 Genomic coordinates (GRCh38): 11:96,390,013-96,393,561 (from NCBI)
Zeng et al. (1997) identified a human tonsil cDNA encoding a protein similar to mouse 'jerky;' see 603210. They designated the predicted 442-amino acid protein HHMJG (human homolog of mouse jerky gene). The HHMJG and mouse jerky proteins are 35% identical. Northern blot analysis revealed that HHMJG is abundantly expressed as a 4-kb mRNA in various tissues. In testis, an additional 2-kb transcript is present.
By fluorescence in situ hybridization, Zeng et al. (1997) mapped the HHMJG gene to chromosome 11q21.
Zeng, Z., Kyaw, H., Gakenheimer, K. R., Augustus, M., Fan, P., Zhang, X., Su, K., Carter, K. C., Li, Y. Cloning, mapping, and tissue distribution of a human homologue of the mouse jerky gene product. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 236: 389-395, 1997. [PubMed: 9240447] [Full Text: https://doi.org/10.1006/bbrc.1997.6935]