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PLEC

Chr 8q24.3

plectin

Aliases:
PCN, PLTN
MANE:
ENST00000345136.8

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Predicted protein structure

Clinical relevance (Genomics England PanelApp)

Diagnostic Grade (Green)

  • Congenital muscular dystrophy

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Congenital myaesthenic syndrome

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • DDG2P

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Epidermolysis bullosa

    BOTH monoallelic and biallelic, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Epidermolysis bullosa and congenital skin fragility

    BOTH monoallelic and biallelic, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Fetal anomalies

    BOTH monoallelic and biallelic, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Limb girdle muscular dystrophies, myofibrillar myopathies and distal myopathies

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Arthrogryposis

    BOTH monoallelic and biallelic, autosomal or pseudoautosomal

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Disease associations (Open Targets)

  • epidermolysis bullosa simplex 5B, with muscular dystrophy

    0.79
  • autosomal recessive limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 2Q

    0.77
  • Epidermolysis bullosa simplex with muscular dystrophy

    0.76
  • Epidermolysis bullosa simplex, Ogna type

    0.74
  • Epidermolysis bullosa simplex with pyloric atresia

    0.73
  • epidermolysis bullosa simplex 5C, with pyloric atresia

    0.73
  • epidermolysis bullosa simplex with nail dystrophy

    0.69
  • epidermolysis bullosa simplex 5A, Ogna type

    0.64
  • epidermolysis bullosa simplex

    0.57
  • neurodegenerative disease

    0.44

Score is the Open Targets composite evidence score (0-1). Higher = stronger gene-disease association.

Protein function (UniProt)

Plectin

Interlinks intermediate filaments with microtubules and microfilaments and anchors intermediate filaments to desmosomes or hemidesmosomes. Could also bind muscle proteins such as actin to membrane complexes in muscle. May be involved not only in the filaments network, but also in the regulation of their dynamics. Structural component of muscle. Isoform 9 plays a major role in the maintenance of myofiber integrity

Data sources: HGNC (CC BY 4.0), AlphaFold (CC BY 4.0, Jumper et al. Nature 2021), Genomics England PanelApp (CC BY 4.0), ClinGen, Open Targets (CC0), UniProt.

Not for sole clinical decision-making. Always verify against primary sources.