MYH15
Identifiers
Aliases	MYH15, myosin heavy chain 15
External IDs	OMIM: 609929 MGI: 3643515 HomoloGene: 18929 GeneCards: MYH15
Gene location (Human) Chr. Chromosome 3 (human)[1] Band 3q13.13 Start 108,380,368 bp[1] End 108,529,322 bp[1]
Gene location (Mouse) Chr. Chromosome 16 (mouse)[2] Band 16|16 B5 Start 48,877,849 bp[2] End 49,019,467 bp[2]
RNA expression pattern Bgee Human Mouse (ortholog) Top expressed in frontal pole middle frontal gyrus optic nerve rectum prefrontal cortex cingulate gyrus amygdala cerebellar vermis putamen corpus callosum Top expressed in spermatid secondary oocyte testicle lens hypothalamus hippocampus proper olfactory bulb spermatocyte More reference expression data BioGPS n/a
Gene ontology Molecular function nucleotide binding actin binding cytoskeletal motor activity ATP binding calmodulin binding actin filament binding microtubule motor activity microtubule binding Cellular component cytoplasm myosin filament myofibril myosin complex Biological process extraocular skeletal muscle development microtubule-based movement Sources:Amigo / QuickGO
Orthologs Species Human Mouse Entrez 22989 667772 Ensembl ENSG00000144821 ENSMUSG00000092009 UniProt Q9Y2K3 E9Q264 RefSeq (mRNA) NM_014981 NM_001166210 RefSeq (protein) NP_055796 NP_001159682 Location (UCSC) Chr 3: 108.38 – 108.53 Mb Chr 16: 48.88 – 49.02 Mb PubMed search [3] [4]
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Myosin-15 also known as myosin, heavy chain 15 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the MYH15 gene.^[5]

Function

MYH15 is a slow-twitch myosin.^[5]