Haptocorrin

TCN1
Available structures
PDBHuman UniProt search: PDBe RCSB
Identifiers
AliasesTCN1, HC, TC-1, TC1, TCI, transcobalamin 1
External IDsOMIM: 189905; HomoloGene: 47985; GeneCards: TCN1; OMA:TCN1 - orthologs
Orthologs
SpeciesHumanMouse
Entrez

6947

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Ensembl

ENSG00000134827

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UniProt

P20061

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RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_001062

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RefSeq (protein)

NP_001053

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Location (UCSC)Chr 11: 59.85 – 59.87 Mbn/a
PubMed search[2]n/a
Wikidata
View/Edit Human

Haptocorrin (HC) (also known as transcobalamin-1 (TC-1), or cobalophilin) is a transcobalamin[3] glycoprotein.[4] that in humans is encoded by the TCN1 gene.[3] It is essential to protect the acid-sensitive vitamin B12 from degradation while in the stomach. It is also present in the serum where it binds most circulating vitamin B12, rendering it unavailable for uptake by cells (this is conjectured to be a circulating storage function).

  1. ^ a b c GRCh38: Ensembl release 89: ENSG00000134827 – Ensembl, May 2017
  2. ^ "Human PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
  3. ^ a b "Entrez Gene: transcobalamin I (vitamin B12 binding protein".
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference isbn1-4051-3649-9 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).