Transient receptor potential cation channel subfamily M member 7

Transient receptor potential cation channel subfamily M member 7

Bifunctional protein that combines an ion channel with an intrinsic kinase domain, enabling it to modulate cellular functions either by conducting ions through the pore or by phosphorylating downstream proteins via its kinase domain. The channel is highly permeable to divalent cations, specifically calcium (Ca2+), magnesium (Mg2+) and zinc (Zn2+) and mediates their influx11385574,12887921,15485879,24316671,35561741,36027648. Controls a wide range of biological processes such as Ca2(+), Mg(2+) and Zn(2+) homeostasis, vesicular Zn(2+) release channel and intracellular Ca(2+) signaling, embryonic development, immune responses, cell motility, proliferation and differentiation (By similarity). The C-terminal alpha-kinase domain autophosphorylates cytoplasmic residues of TRPM718365021. In vivo, TRPM7 phosphorylates SMAD2, suggesting that TRPM7 kinase may play a role in activating SMAD signaling pathways. In vitro, TRPM7 kinase phosphorylates ANXA1 (annexin A1), myosin II isoforms and a variety of proteins with diverse cellular functions15485879,18394644

The cleaved channel exhibits substantially higher current and potentiates Fas receptor signaling

The C-terminal kinase domain can be cleaved from the channel segment in a cell-type-specific fashion. In immune cells, the TRPM7 kinase domain is clipped from the channel domain by caspases in response to Fas-receptor stimulation. The cleaved kinase fragments can translocate to the nucleus, and bind chromatin-remodeling complex proteins in a Zn(2+)-dependent manner to ultimately phosphorylate specific Ser/Thr residues of histones known to be functionally important for cell differentiation and embryonic development

Quoted from UniProt’s FUNCTION annotation for Q96QT4 (reviewed). The superscript numbers are UniProt’s own PubMed citations, kept in the sentence and in order, each linking to the paper it names.

What it acts with

STRING’s highest-confidence human functional partners. The combined score mixes several kinds of evidence, so each channel is shown separately — a partner supported by experiment is a different claim from one supported only by text mining, and for a receptor this is where its coupling appears as evidence rather than as assertion.

Where it sits in the cell

• Vesicles
• Plasma membrane
• Nucleoplasmadditional
• Cytosoladditional

Human Protein Atlas, by antibody immunofluorescence in cell lines — a different assay from the expression figures below, which are RNA.

UniProt, curated Cell membrane · Cytoplasmic vesicle membrane · Nucleus

Expression by cell type

Single cell type RNA, the 4 highest of those the Human Protein Atlas reports for this gene. Transcript, not protein, and a cell type rather than a tissue.

• Distal convoluted tubule cells2,550.7 nCPM
• Cardiomyocytes833.5 nCPM
• Retinal pigment epithelial cells763.1 nCPM
• Choroid plexus epithelial cells504.9 nCPM

Expression by tissue

The tissues this gene is enriched in, by consensus RNA. A tissue absent from this list is one the Atlas does not call specific for this gene, which is not the same as absent from it.

• parathyroid gland102.5 nTPM