Full name: macrophage erythroblast attacher, E3 ubiquitin ligase

Gene type: protein coding

RefSeq status: REVIEWED

Also known as: EMLP; EMP; GID9; HLC-10; P44EMLP; PIG5

Summary: This gene encodes a protein that mediates the attachment of erythroblasts to macrophages. This attachment promotes terminal maturation and enucleation of erythroblasts, presumably by suppressing apoptosis. The encoded protein is an integral membrane protein with the N-terminus on the extracellular side and the C-terminus on the cytoplasmic side of the cell. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2014]

Expression: Ubiquitous expression in kidney (RPKM 10.3), spleen (RPKM 10.0) and 25 other tissues

Gene size: 50247bp

Exon count: 13