NFASC

NFASC
Available structures
PDBOrtholog search: PDBe RCSB
Identifiers
Aliases NFASC, NF, NRCAML, neurofascin
External IDs MGI: 104753 HomoloGene: 24945 GeneCards: NFASC
Genetically Related Diseases
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis[1]
RNA expression pattern
More reference expression data
Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez

23114

269116

Ensembl

ENSG00000163531

ENSMUSG00000026442

UniProt

O94856

Q810U3

RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_001160316
NM_001160317
NM_001160318
NM_182716

RefSeq (protein)

NP_874385.1

Location (UCSC) Chr 1: 204.83 – 205.02 Mb Chr 1: 132.56 – 132.74 Mb
PubMed search [2] [3]
Wikidata
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Neurofascin is a protein that in humans is encoded by the NFASC gene.[4][5][6]

Function

Neurofascin is an L1 family immunoglobulin cell adhesion molecule (see L1CAM) involved in axon subcellular targeting and synapse formation during neural development.[6][7]

References

  1. "Diseases that are genetically associated with NFASC view/edit references on wikidata".
  2. "Human PubMed Reference:".
  3. "Mouse PubMed Reference:".
  4. 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 2289533Freely accessible. PMID 1377696.
  5. 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.
  6. 1 2 "Entrez Gene: NFASC neurofascin homolog (chicken)".
  7. 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.

Further reading


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