| Tissue Specificity | Expressed in the corneal epithelium (at protein level). Detected in the basal layer, lowered within the more apically located layers specifically in the stratum spinosum, stratum granulosum but is not detected in stratum corneum. Strongly expressed in the outer root sheath of anagen follicles but not in the germinative matrix, inner root sheath or hair. Found in keratinocytes surrounding the club hair during telogen. |
| Post Translational Modifications | A disulfide bond is formed between rather than within filaments and promotes the formation of a keratin filament cage around the nucleus. Ubiquitinated by the BCR(KLHL24) E3 ubiquitin ligase complex. |
| Function | The nonhelical tail domain is involved in promoting KRT5-KRT14 filaments to self-organize into large bundles and enhances the mechanical properties involved in resilience of keratin intermediate filaments in vitro. |
| Protein Name | Keratin - Type I Cytoskeletal 14Cytokeratin-14Ck-14Keratin-14K14 |
| Database Links | Reactome: R-HSA-446107Reactome: R-HSA-6805567Reactome: R-HSA-6809371Reactome: R-HSA-9725554 |
| Cellular Localisation | CytoplasmNucleusExpressed In Both As A Filamentous Pattern |
| Alternative Protein Names | Keratin - Type I Cytoskeletal 14 proteinCytokeratin-14 proteinCk-14 proteinKeratin-14 proteinK14 proteinKRT14 protein |
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