in nasal cartilage & bovine articular cartilage; interacts with proteoglycan monomers to form aggregate structures; involved in stabilizing the interaction between two other components of cartilage, proteoglycan subunit and hyaluronic acid; UTI-BP(40) is identical to link protein (LP); RefSeq NM_001884 (human), NM_013500 (mouse)
Also Known As:
CRTL1 protein, human; Crtl1 protein, mouse; Crtl1l protein, mouse; HAPLN1 protein, human; Hapln1 protein, mouse; Hapln1 protein, rat; UTI-BP(40); cartilage link protein; cartilage link protein, human; cartilage linking protein 1, human; cartilage linking protein 1, mouse; hyaluronan and proteoglycan link protein 1, human; hyaluronan and proteoglycan link protein 1, mouse