TRPV4: a non-selective calcium permeant cation channel probably involved in osmotic sensitivity and mechanosensitivity. Activation by exposure to hypotonicity within the physiological range exhibits an outward rectification. Also activated by low pH, citrate and phorbol esters. Increase of intracellular Ca(2+) potentiates currents. Channel activity seems to be regulated by a calmodulin-dependent mechanism with a negative feedback mechanism. Promotes cell-cell junction formation in skin keratinocytes and plays an important role in the formation and/or maintenance of functional intercellular barriers. Acts as a regulator of intracellular Ca(2+) in synoviocytes. Plays an obligatory role as a molecular component in the nonselective cation channel activation induced by 4-alpha-phorbol 12,13-didecanoate and hypotonic stimulation in synoviocytes and also regulates production of IL-8. Belongs to the transient receptor (TC 1.A.4) family. TrpV subfamily. TRPV4 sub-subfamily. 6 isoforms of the human protein are produced by alternative splicing.
Protein type: Membrane protein, multi-pass; Membrane protein, integral; Channel, cation
Chromosomal Location of Human Ortholog: 12q24.1
Cellular Component: adherens junction; cilium; cortical actin cytoskeleton; cytoplasmic microtubule; filopodium; focal adhesion; growth cone; integral to plasma membrane; lamellipodium; plasma membrane
Molecular Function: actin binding; actin filament binding; alpha-tubulin binding; beta-tubulin binding; calcium channel activity; calmodulin binding; cation channel activity; microtubule binding; protein binding; protein kinase binding; protein kinase C binding; SH2 domain binding; stretch-activated, cation-selective, calcium channel activity
Biological Process: actin cytoskeleton reorganization; actin filament organization; calcium ion transport; cell volume homeostasis; cellular calcium ion homeostasis; cortical microtubule organization and biogenesis; elevation of cytosolic calcium ion concentration; intercellular junction assembly; microtubule polymerization; multicellular organismal water homeostasis; osmosensory signaling pathway; positive regulation of microtubule depolymerization; positive regulation of vascular permeability; response to mechanical stimulus
Disease: Brachyolmia Type 3; Digital Arthropathy-brachydactyly, Familial; Hereditary Motor And Sensory Neuropathy, Type Iic; Metatropic Dysplasia; Parastremmatic Dwarfism; Scapuloperoneal Spinal Muscular Atrophy; Sodium Serum Level Quantitative Trait Locus 1; Spinal Muscular Atrophy, Distal, Congenital Nonprogressive; Spondyloepiphyseal Dysplasia, Maroteaux Type; Spondylometaphyseal Dysplasia, Kozlowski Type
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