The following gene names and symbols are associated with antigen alpha-Actinin Skeletal Muscle across different species:

actinin, alpha 2 (ACTN2), actinin, alpha 3 (ACTN3)

Other aliases include:

CMD1AA, MGC117002, MGC117005, ACTN3, MGC140041

On the protein level the following designations are being used for antigen alpha-Actinin Skeletal Muscle:

actinin, alpha 2 – F-actin cross-linking protein – alpha-actinin skeletal muscle – actinin, alpha 3 – alpha-actinin-3

alpha-Actinin Skeletal Muscle fulfills a number of functions:

FATZ 1 binding – ZASP binding – actin binding – calcium ion binding – identical protein binding – integrin binding – protein dimerization activity – structural constituent of muscle – thyroid hormone receptor coactivator activity – titin Z domain binding – titin binding – protein binding – protein homodimerization activity

alpha-Actinin Skeletal Muscle is relevant to the following processes:

cell adhesion – focal adhesion formation – microspike assembly – muscle contraction – protein homotetramerization – regulation of apoptosis

Locations for alpha-Actinin Skeletal Muscle:

Z disc – actin filament – cytoplasm – cytoskeleton – dendritic spine – extracellular region – filopodium – focal adhesion – nucleolus – platelet alpha granule lumen – pseudopodium

Source: NCBI Entrez Gene, Gene Ontology