Primary Identifier | MGI:2149946 | Organism | mouse, laboratory |
Chromosome | 10 | NCBI Gene Number | 94221 |
Mgi Type | protein coding gene |
description | FUNCTION: Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 8.0.0) Enables GTPase regulator activity; frizzled binding activity; and protein homodimerization activity. Acts upstream of or within spermatid nucleus differentiation. Located in Golgi apparatus; plasma membrane; and synapse. Is expressed in genitourinary system and tongue. Used to study azoospermia. Orthologous to human GOPC (golgi associated PDZ and coiled-coil motif containing). PHENOTYPE: Mice homozygous for a null allele show male sterility with globozoospermia characterized by a complete lack of acrosomes due to failure of vesicle transport from the Golgi apparatus, a malformed sperm nucleus, and abnormal mitochondrial arrangement in the mitochondrial sheath of mutant spermatozoa. [provided by MGI curators] |