NFASC

Neurofascin

Rendering based on PDB 3P3Y.
Available structures
PDB Ortholog search: PDBe, RCSB
Identifiers
SymbolsNFASC ; NF; NRCAML
External IDsOMIM: 609145 MGI: 104753 HomoloGene: 24945 GeneCards: NFASC Gene
RNA expression pattern
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Orthologs
SpeciesHumanMouse
Entrez23114269116
EnsemblENSG00000163531ENSMUSG00000026442
UniProtO94856Q810U3
RefSeq (mRNA)NM_001005387NM_001160316
RefSeq (protein)NP_001005388NP_001153788
Location (UCSC)Chr 1:
204.8 – 204.99 Mb
Chr 1:
132.56 – 132.74 Mb
PubMed search

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.
  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. 3.0 3.1 "Entrez Gene: NFASC neurofascin homolog (chicken)".
  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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