The following gene names and symbols are associated with antigen Obscurin across different species:

obscurin, cytoskeletal calmodulin and titin-interacting RhoGEF (OBSCN), obscurin, cytoskeletal calmodulin and titin-interacting RhoGEF (Obscn)

Other aliases include:

UNC89, ARHGEF30, FLJ14124, KIAA1556, KIAA1639, MGC120409, MGC120410, MGC120411, MGC120412, MGC138590, DKFZp666E245, Gm878, BC046431, MGC51514, OTTMUSG00000005786, MGC166429

On the protein level the following designations are being used for antigen Obscurin:

obscurin – obscurin-MLCK – obscurin-RhoGEF – obscurin-myosin light chain kinase – obscurin, myosin light chain kinase – obscurin, cytoskeletal calmodulin and titin-interacting RhoGEF

Obscurin fulfills a number of functions:

ATP binding – Rho guanyl-nucleotide exchange factor activity – guanyl-nucleotide exchange factor activity – metal ion binding – nucleotide binding – protein binding – protein serine/threonine kinase activity – protein tyrosine kinase activity – structural constituent of muscle – titin binding – transferase activity – ankyrin binding – kinase activity – protein kinase activity

Obscurin is relevant to the following processes:

apoptosis – cell differentiation – induction of apoptosis by extracellular signals – multicellular organismal development – nerve growth factor receptor signaling pathway – protein phosphorylation – regulation of Rho protein signal transduction – regulation of small GTPase mediated signal transduction – small GTPase mediated signal transduction

Locations for Obscurin:

M band – Z disc – cytoplasm – cytosol – intracellular – myofibril – striated muscle myosin thick filament

Source: NCBI Entrez Gene, Gene Ontology