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CORO6
coronin 6
Chromosome 17 · 17q11.2
NCBI Gene: 84940Ensembl: ENSG00000167549.20HGNC: HGNC:21356UniProt: B3KRY9
23PubMed Papers
20Diseases
0Drugs
0Pathogenic Variants
DATA QUALITY
✓ Experimental GO Evidence✓ Swiss-Prot Reviewed
protein bindingplasma membraneactin filament bindingactin filament organizationcoronary artery diseaseneurodegenerative diseaseagingbreast ductal adenocarcinoma
✦AI Summary

CORO6 (Coronin 6) is an actin-binding protein containing a conserved WD40 repeat domain that regulates cytoskeletal organization through interactions with F-actin and the Arp2/3 complex 1. The protein functions in actin filament binding and organization at the plasma membrane [GO annotations]. CORO6 plays significant roles in multiple cancer contexts: in osteosarcoma, elevated CORO6 promotes cell proliferation, migration, and invasion via Wnt/β-catenin signaling and glycolysis activation, with METTL3/YTHDF1-mediated m6A modification stabilizing CORO6 mRNA 1. In skeletal muscle, CORO6 undergoes Rbm24-regulated alternative splicing during myogenic differentiation, controlled by microRNA-222 2. CORO6 serves as a biomarker in cardiac pathology, being detectable in circulating cell-free DNA from myocardial infarction patients via digital droplet PCR 3. Additionally, CORO6 appears as a candidate gene in oral squamous cell carcinoma lymph node metastasis prediction 4 and shows epigenetic inactivation through promoter methylation in renal cell carcinoma and age-related methylation changes in breast cancer tissues [PMID:21132003; 58]. These findings suggest CORO6 functions both as an oncogenic driver in some malignancies and as an epigenetically regulated gene in cancer development.

Sources cited
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CORO6 inhibits actin dynamics through F-actin/Arp2/3 interactions; elevated in osteosarcoma; promotes proliferation, migration, invasion via Wnt/β-catenin and glycolysis; expression stabilized by METTL3/YTHDF1 m6A modification
PMID: 39536930
2
CORO6 shows heart-specific hypermethylation; detectable in circulating cfDNA of myocardial infarction patients via digital droplet PCR assay
PMID: 35062960
3
CORO6 undergoes muscle-specific alternative splicing regulated by Rbm24, which is controlled by microRNA-222 during skeletal muscle differentiation
PMID: 26844700
4
CORO6 identified as candidate RNA biomarker in RNA-seq model for lymph node metastasis prediction in oral squamous cell carcinoma
PMID: 32934959
5
CORO6 shows promoter methylation in 22% of renal cell carcinoma samples, identified as candidate epigenetically inactivated tumor suppressor gene
PMID: 21132003
6
CORO6 exhibits age-related methylation in breast tissue with methylation inversely correlating with gene expression; higher methylation in tumors versus adjacent normal tissue
PMID: 32970968
Disease Associationsⓘ20
coronary artery diseaseOpen Targets
0.39Weak
neurodegenerative diseaseOpen Targets
0.28Weak
agingOpen Targets
0.19Weak
breast ductal adenocarcinomaOpen Targets
0.11Weak
neoplasmOpen Targets
0.08Suggestive
ovarian neoplasmOpen Targets
0.08Suggestive
hepatocellular carcinomaOpen Targets
0.08Suggestive
nonpapillary renal cell carcinomaOpen Targets
0.07Suggestive
hypothyroidismOpen Targets
0.07Suggestive
response to statinOpen Targets
0.06Suggestive
heart failureOpen Targets
0.05Suggestive
aortic diseaseOpen Targets
0.03Suggestive
osteosarcomaOpen Targets
0.03Suggestive
glioblastoma multiformeOpen Targets
0.02Suggestive
astrocytomaOpen Targets
0.02Suggestive
medulloblastomaOpen Targets
0.02Suggestive
colorectal cancerOpen Targets
0.02Suggestive
esophageal squamous cell carcinomaOpen Targets
0.01Suggestive
myocardial infarctionOpen Targets
0.01Suggestive
cancerOpen Targets
0.01Suggestive
Pathogenic Variants
No pathogenic variants reported on ClinVar for this gene.
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Related Genes
CORO1BProtein interaction55%TMSB15CShared pathway50%ARHGAP36Shared pathway50%TAGLN2Shared pathway33%TMSB10Shared pathway33%TMSB15AShared pathway33%
Tissue Expression6 tissues
Heart
100%
Lung
24%
Ovary
7%
Brain
4%
Liver
2%
Bone Marrow
1%
Gene Interaction Network
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CORO6CORO1BTMSB15CARHGAP36TAGLN2TMSB10TMSB15A
PROTEIN STRUCTURE
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PDB7KYX · 1.63 Å · X-ray
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Constraintⓘ
LOEUFⓘ
1.18LoF Tolerant
pLIⓘ
0.00Tolerant
Observed/Expected LoF0.91 [0.71–1.18]
RankingsWhere CORO6 stands among ~20K protein-coding genes
  • #13,395of 20,598
    Most Researched23
  • #12,332of 17,882
    Most Constrained (LOEUF)1.18
Genes detectedCORO6
Sources retrieved7 papers
Response time—
📄 Sources
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1
METTL3/YTHDF1 stabilizes CORO6 expression promoting osteosarcoma progression through glycolysis.
PMID: 39536930
Exp Cell Res · 2024
1.00
2
Heart-specific DNA methylation analysis in plasma for the investigation of myocardial damage.
PMID: 35062960
J Transl Med · 2022
0.86
3
MicroRNA-222 regulates muscle alternative splicing through Rbm24 during differentiation of skeletal muscle cells.
PMID: 26844700
Cell Death Dis · 2016
0.71
4
A Novel RNA-Seq-Based Model for Preoperative Prediction of Lymph Node Metastasis in Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma.
PMID: 32934959
Biomed Res Int · 2020
0.57
5
PMID: 37239355
Genes (Basel) · 2023
0.43