Primary Identifier | MGI:1921559 | Organism | mouse, laboratory |
Chromosome | 11 | NCBI Gene Number | 74309 |
Mgi Type | protein coding gene |
description | FUNCTION: Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 8.0.0) Predicted to enable cholesterol binding activity. Acts upstream of or within spermatid development. Located in acrosomal vesicle and apical dendrite. Is expressed in several structures, including central nervous system; genitourinary system; and heart. Orthologous to human OSBP2 (oxysterol binding protein 2). PHENOTYPE: Mice homozygous for a knock-out allele exhibit male infertility with sperm defects including oligozoospermia, teratozoospermia, asthenozoospermia and abnormal spermiogenesis. [provided by MGI curators] |