NPTXR

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Neuronal pentraxin receptor
Identifiers
Symbol(s) NPTXR; NPR
External IDs OMIM: 609474 MGI: 1920590 HomoloGene: 8620
Orthologs
Human Mouse
Entrez 23467 73340


Refseq NM_014293 (mRNA)
NP_055108 (protein)		 NM_030689 (mRNA)
NP_109614 (protein)
Pubmed search [1] [2]

Neuronal pentraxin receptor, also known as NPTXR, is a human gene.[1]

This gene encodes a protein similar to the rat neuronal pentraxin receptor. The rat protein pentraxin is thought to mediate neuronal uptake of synaptic material and the presynaptic snake venom toxin, taipoxin. Studies in rat indicate that translation of this mRNA initiates at a non-AUG (CUG) codon. This may also be true for human and mouse, based on strong sequence conservation amongst these species.[1]

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Entrez Gene: NPTXR neuronal pentraxin receptor.

[edit] Further reading

  • Andersson KB, Florholmen G, Winer LH, et al. (2006). "Regulation of neuronal type genes in congestive heart failure rats.". Acta physiologica (Oxford, England) 186 (1): 17-27. doi:10.1111/j.1748-1716.2005.01503.x. PMID 16497176. 
  • Poulsen TT, Pedersen N, Perin MS, et al. (2006). "Specific sensitivity of small cell lung cancer cell lines to the snake venom toxin taipoxin.". Lung Cancer 50 (3): 329-37. doi:10.1016/j.lungcan.2005.06.011. PMID 16115696. 
  • Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH, et al. (2003). "Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences.". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99 (26): 16899-903. doi:10.1073/pnas.242603899. PMID 12477932. 
  • Kirkpatrick LL, Matzuk MM, Dodds DC, Perin MS (2000). "Biochemical interactions of the neuronal pentraxins. Neuronal pentraxin (NP) receptor binds to taipoxin and taipoxin-associated calcium-binding protein 49 via NP1 and NP2.". J. Biol. Chem. 275 (23): 17786-92. doi:10.1074/jbc.M002254200. PMID 10748068. 
  • Dunham I, Shimizu N, Roe BA, et al. (1999). "The DNA sequence of human chromosome 22.". Nature 402 (6761): 489-95. doi:10.1038/990031. PMID 10591208. 
  • Dodds DC, Omeis IA, Cushman SJ, et al. (1997). "Neuronal pentraxin receptor, a novel putative integral membrane pentraxin that interacts with neuronal pentraxin 1 and 2 and taipoxin-associated calcium-binding protein 49.". J. Biol. Chem. 272 (34): 21488-94. PMID 9261167. 
  • Yu W, Andersson B, Worley KC, et al. (1997). "Large-scale concatenation cDNA sequencing.". Genome Res. 7 (4): 353-8. PMID 9110174. 
  • Andersson B, Wentland MA, Ricafrente JY, et al. (1996). "A "double adaptor" method for improved shotgun library construction.". Anal. Biochem. 236 (1): 107-13. doi:10.1006/abio.1996.0138. PMID 8619474. 
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