Protein
Sex comb on midleg-like protein 1
Organism
Gorilla gorilla gorilla
Function
Putative Polycomb group (PcG) protein. PcG proteins act by forming multiprotein complexes, which are required to maintain the transcriptionally repressive state of homeotic genes throughout development. May be involved in spermatogenesis during sexual maturation (By similarity).
Similarity
Belongs to the SCM family.
Sequence
MMSNSSSEIDVVKTRIPTYDEDDDTILYAYETKPEFVNKEPNIVSDASCNTEEQLKTVNDVLIHCQVIYDAMQNLDKKIDVIRRKVSKIQRFHARFLWANRKRYGYKKHSYRLVKKLKLQKMKKNEVYETFSYPESYSPTLPVSRRENNSPSNLPRPSFCMEEYQRAEPEEDPILSRTLSPVHPSDFSEHNYQPYYASDGAAYGSSSGLCLGNPRADSIHDTYSTDQASAAPPSVTRSPFENDGYIEKGSITKHPSTWSVEAVVLFLKQTDPLALCPLVDLFRSHEIDGKALLLLTSDVLLKHLGVKLGTAVKLCYYIDRLKQGKCFEN