MACF1

Microtubule-actin crosslinking factor 1
Identifiers
Symbols MACF1; ABP620; ACF7; FLJ45612; FLJ46776; KIAA0465; KIAA1251; MACF; OFC4
External IDs OMIM608271 HomoloGene82578 GeneCards: MACF1 Gene
RNA expression pattern
More reference expression data
Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez 23499 n/a
Ensembl ENSG00000127603 n/a
UniProt Q96PK2 n/a
RefSeq (mRNA) NM_012090.4 n/a
RefSeq (protein) NP_036222.3 n/a
Location (UCSC) Chr 1:
39.55 – 39.95 Mb
n/a
PubMed search [1] n/a

Microtubule-actin cross-linking factor 1, isoforms 1/2/3/5 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the MACF1 gene.[1][2][3]

The protein encoded by this gene belongs to the plakin family of cytoskeletal linker proteins. This protein family forms bridges between different cytoskeletal elements through specialized modular domains. The encoded protein is one of the largest size proteins identified in human cytoskeletal proteins. It has functional actin and microtubule binding domains, and it appears to stabilize actin at sites where microtubules and microfilaments meet. It may function in microtubule dynamics to facilitate actin-microtubule interactions at the cell periphery and to couple the microtubule network to cellular junctions. Alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding distinct isoforms have been described.[3]

References

  1. ^ Byers TJ, Beggs AH, McNally EM, Kunkel LM (Sep 1995). "Novel actin crosslinker superfamily member identified by a two step degenerate PCR procedure". FEBS Lett 368 (3): 500–4. doi:10.1016/0014-5793(95)00722-L. PMID 7635207. 
  2. ^ Okuda T, Matsuda S, Nakatsugawa S, Ichigotani Y, Iwahashi N, Takahashi M, Ishigaki T, Hamaguchi M (Dec 1999). "Molecular cloning of macrophin, a human homologue of Drosophila kakapo with a close structural similarity to plectin and dystrophin". Biochem Biophys Res Commun 264 (2): 568–74. doi:10.1006/bbrc.1999.1538. PMID 10529403. 
  3. ^ a b "Entrez Gene: MACF1 microtubule-actin crosslinking factor 1". http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=gene&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=23499. 

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