G Protein Gamma 8 (GNg8)

Heterotrimeric guanine nucleotide binding proteins (G proteins) transduce extracellular signals received by transmembrane receptors to effector proteins.Currently, 16 different members of the alpha subunit family, 5 different members of the beta subunit family, and 11 different members of the gamma subunit family have been described in mammals.The gene structure and chromosome location of each gene was determined, as were the orientations of paired genes. Gnb4 returned only a partial EST sequence, and Gnat3, Gnal4,and Gng8 were represented only by mouse or rat sequences.