TGFβ family ligand - concentrated in the foregut - broad expression pattern suggests that signaling could be permissive rather than instructive during stomatogastric nervous system precursor migration - neuromuscular junction glia release Maverick, which likely activates the muscle activin-type receptor Punt to potently modulate Gbb-dependent retrograde signaling and synaptic growth
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AlphaFold produces a per-residue confidence score (pLDDT) between 0 and 100. Some regions with low pLDDT may be unstructured in isolation.
Low-frequency RNA-Seq exon junction(s) not annotated.
Gene model reviewed during 5.46
2.8 (northern blot)
There is only one protein coding transcript and one polypeptide associated with this gene
701, 433 (aa)
mav protein belongs to the TGF-β superfamily but is not easily assigned to either the TGF-β, the BMP or activin subfamilies. It shows the highest sequence similarity with BMP-related ligands from other organisms.
The shorter predicted mav protein isoform lacks a signal sequence suggesting that it may not be secreted.
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The testis specificity index was calculated from modENCODE tissue expression data by Vedelek et al., 2018 to indicate the degree of testis enrichment compared to other tissues. Scores range from -2.52 (underrepresented) to 5.2 (very high testis bias).
Comment: P-stage not assayed
Expression is observed in early germ cells in the apical testis tip.
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polyclonal
Source for identity of mav CG1901 was sequence comparison ( date:000829 ).
Source for identity of: mav CG1901