NFASC

NFASC
Available structures
PDBOrtholog search: PDBe RCSB
Identifiers
AliasesNFASC, NF, NRCAML, neurofascin
External IDsMGI: 104753 HomoloGene: 24945 GeneCards: NFASC
Gene location (Human)
Chr.Chromosome 1 (human)[1]
BandNo data availableStart204,828,651 bp[1]
End205,022,822 bp[1]
RNA expression pattern
More reference expression data
Orthologs
SpeciesHumanMouse
Entrez

23114

269116

Ensembl

ENSG00000163531

ENSMUSG00000026442

UniProt

O94856

Q810U3

RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_001160316
NM_001160317
NM_001160318
NM_182716

RefSeq (protein)

NP_001153788
NP_001153789
NP_001153790
NP_874385

Location (UCSC)Chr 1: 204.83 – 205.02 MbChr 1: 132.56 – 132.74 Mb
PubMed search[3][4]
Wikidata
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Neurofascin is a protein that in humans is encoded by the NFASC gene.[5][6][7]

Function

Neurofascin is an L1 family immunoglobulin cell adhesion molecule (see L1CAM) involved in axon subcellular targeting and synapse formation during neural development.[7][8]

References

  1. 1 2 3 GRCh38: Ensembl release 89: ENSG00000163531 - Ensembl, May 2017
  2. 1 2 3 GRCm38: Ensembl release 89: ENSMUSG00000026442 - Ensembl, May 2017
  3. "Human PubMed Reference:".
  4. "Mouse PubMed Reference:".
  5. 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. PMC 2289533Freely accessible. PMID 1377696. doi:10.1083/jcb.118.1.149.
  6. 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. PMID 8672144. doi:10.1007/s003359900168.
  7. 1 2 "Entrez Gene: NFASC neurofascin homolog (chicken)".
  8. 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. PMID 15479642. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2004.10.004.

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