NRXN1

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Neurexin 1
PDB rendering based on 1c4r.
Available structures: 1c4r, 2h0b
Identifiers
Symbol(s) NRXN1; DKFZp313P2036; FLJ35941; Hs.22998; KIAA0578
External IDs OMIM: 600565 HomoloGene21005
RNA expression pattern

More reference expression data

Orthologs
Human Mouse
Entrez 9378 n/a
Ensembl ENSG00000179915 n/a
Uniprot P58400 n/a
Refseq NM_004801 (mRNA)
NP_004792 (protein)
n/a (mRNA)
n/a (protein)
Location Chr 2: 50 - 50.43 Mb n/a
Pubmed search [1] n/a

Neurexin 1, also known as NRXN1, is a human gene.[1]

Neurexins are a family of proteins that function in the vertebrate nervous system as cell adhesion molecules and receptors. They are encoded by several unlinked genes of which two, NRXN1 and NRXN3, are among the largest known human genes. Three of the genes (NRXN1-3) utilize two alternate promoters and include numerous alternatively spliced exons to generate thousands of distinct mRNA transcripts and protein isoforms. The majority of transcripts are produced from the upstream promoter and encode alpha-neurexin isoforms; a much smaller number of transcripts are produced from the downstream promoter and encode beta-neurexin isoforms. The alpha-neurexins contain epidermal growth factor-like (EGF-like) sequences and laminin G domains, and have been shown to interact with neurexophilins. The beta-neurexins lack EGF-like sequences and contain fewer laminin G domains than alpha-neurexins.[1]

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