Type II hair keratin

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Type II hair keratin is one of the two types of hair keratin. It is a basic protein which heterodimerizes with type I hair keratins to form hair and nails.

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Protein: scleroproteins
Extracellular matrix
1-12
type I (COL1A1, COL1A2) · type II (COL2A1) · type III · type IV (COL4A1, COL4A2, COL4A3, COL4A4, COL4A5, COL4A6) · type V (COL5A1, COL5A2, COL5A3) · type VI (COL6A1, COL6A2, COL6A3) · type VII (COL7A1) · type VIII (COL8A1, COL8A2) · type IX (COL9A1, COL9A2, COL9A3) · type X (COL10A1) · type XI (COL11A1, COL11A2) · type XII (COL12A1)
13-29
alpha (LAMA1, LAMA2, LAMA3, LAMA4, LAMA5) · beta (LAMB1, LAMB2, LAMB3, LAMB4) · gamma (LAMC1, LAMC2, LAMC3)
Other
Keratin/Cytokeratin
Epithelial keratins
(soft alpha-keratins)

type I/chromosome 17 (10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20) · chromosome 12 (18) · none (21)

type II/chromosome 12 (1, 2A, 3, 4, 5, 6A, 6B, 7, 8, 9)
Hair keratins
(hard alpha-keratins)

type I/chromosome 17 (31, 32, 33A, 33B, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38)

type II/chromosome 12 (81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86)
Ungrouped alpha
Not alpha
Other
see also diseases
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