NFASC

Neurofascin

Rendering based on PDB 3P3Y.
Identifiers
Symbols NFASC; DKFZp686P2250; FLJ46866; KIAA0756; NF; NRCAML
External IDs OMIM609145 MGI104753 HomoloGene24945 GeneCards: NFASC Gene
RNA expression pattern
More reference expression data
Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez 23114 269116
Ensembl ENSG00000163531 ENSMUSG00000026442
UniProt O94856 Q6P6Q1
RefSeq (mRNA) NM_001005388.2 NM_182716
RefSeq (protein) NP_001005388.2 NP_874385
Location (UCSC) Chr 1:
204.8 – 204.99 Mb
Chr 1:
134.46 – 134.64 Mb
PubMed search [1] [2]

Neurofascin is a protein that in humans is encoded by the NFASC gene.[1][2][3]

Function

Neurofascin is an L1 family immunoglobulin cell adhesion molecule (see L1CAM) involved in axon subcellular targeting and synapse formation during neural development.[3][4]

References

  1. ^ Volkmer H, Hassel B, Wolff JM, Frank R, Rathjen FG (Jul 1992). "Structure of the axonal surface recognition molecule neurofascin and its relationship to a neural subgroup of the immunoglobulin superfamily". J Cell Biol 118 (1): 149–61. doi:10.1083/jcb.118.1.149. PMC 2289533. PMID 1377696. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=2289533. 
  2. ^ Burmeister M, Ren Q, Makris GJ, Samson D, Bennett V (Oct 1996). "Genes for the neuronal immunoglobulin domain cell adhesion molecules neurofascin and Nr-CAM map to mouse chromosomes 1 and 12 and homologous human chromosomes". Mamm Genome 7 (7): 558–9. doi:10.1007/s003359900168. PMID 8672144. 
  3. ^ a b "Entrez Gene: NFASC neurofascin homolog (chicken)". http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=gene&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=23114. 
  4. ^ Ango F, di Cristo G, Higashiyama H, Bennett V, Wu P, Huang ZJ (October 2004). "Ankyrin-based subcellular gradient of neurofascin, an immunoglobulin family protein, directs GABAergic innervation at purkinje axon initial segment". Cell 119 (2): 257–72. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2004.10.004. PMID 15479642. 

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