024  OK Blood Group
The OK blood group system consists of 3 antigens carried on a single pass type I membrane glycoprotein with 2 IgSF domains called Basigin (aka CD147, neurothelin, EMMPRIN). It consists of 248 amino acids and has a leader sequence of 21 amino acids, which is cleaved from the membrane bound protein.
Antigens
[1] Oka
[2] OKGV
[3] OKVM
Reference Info
Gene: BSG
Allele: OK*01. Acceptable: OK*A, or Oka if inferred by haemagglutination
Seq: NG_007468.1 (genomic), NM_198589.2 (transcript)
Entrez GeneID: 682
Number of exons: 7