Instruct: Identify the main category of Biorxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: Identification of the cell-type-specific ER membrane protein Tanmp expressed in hypothalamic tanycytes and subsets of neurons Genomes of higher eukaryotes encode many uncharacterized proteins, and the functions of these proteins cannot be predicted from the primary sequences due to a lack of conserved functional domains. During a screening of novel noncoding RNAs abundantly expressed in mouse brains, we incidentally identified a gene termed Tanmp, which encoded an endoplasmic reticulum (ER) protein without known functional domains. Tanmp is specifically expressed in the nervous system, and the highest expression was observed in a specialized cell type called tanycyte that aligns the ventral wall of the third ventricle in the hypothalamus. Immunostaining of Tanmp revealed the fine morphology of tanycytes with highly branched apical ER membranes. Immunoprecipitation revealed that Tanmp associates with mitochondrial ATPase at least in vitro, and ER and mitochondrial signals occasionally overlapped in tanycytes. Mutant mice lacking Tanmp did not exhibit overt phenotypes, suggesting that Tanmp is not essential in mice reared under normal laboratory conditions. We also found that RNA probes that are predicted to uniquely detect Tanmp mRNA cross-reacted with uncharacterized RNAs, highlighting the importance of experimental validation of the specificity of probes during the hybridization-based study of RNA localization.
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The categories of this paper are: pharmacology
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The categories of this paper are: behavior