Also known as STR, statherin
Statherin is a protein in humans that is encoded by the STATH gene. It prevents the precipitation of calcium phosphate in saliva, maintaining a high calcium level in saliva available for remineralisation of tooth enamel and high phosphate levels for buffering.
Predicted to be involved in ossification. [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Apr 2022]
via MyGene.info
Statherin is a protein in humans that is encoded by the STATH gene. It prevents the precipitation of calcium phosphate in saliva, maintaining a high calcium level in saliva available for remineralisation of tooth enamel and high phosphate levels for buffering.
== References ==
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).