Calcium channel associated transcriptional regulator (CCAT) is a

transcription factor In molecular biology, a transcription factor (TF) (or sequence-specific DNA-binding factor) is a protein that controls the rate of transcription of genetic information from DNA to messenger RNA, by binding to a specific DNA sequence. The fu ...

found in mammalian cells.

Generation

In neuronal cells, CCAT is generated upon activation of a cryptic promoter in exon 46 of ''CACNA1C'', the gene that encodes the voltage-gated calcium channel

Cav1.2 Calcium channel, voltage-dependent, L type, alpha 1C subunit (also known as Cav1.2) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ''CACNA1C'' gene. Cav1.2 is a subunit of L-type voltage-dependent calcium channel. Structure and function This g ...

References

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