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Facts about Nicastrin.
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Human | |
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Gene Name: | NCSTN |
Uniprot: | Q92542 |
Entrez: | 23385 |
Belongs to: |
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nicastrin family |
anterior pharynx-defective 2; APH2; ATAG1874; KIAA0253APH2; NCSTN; Nicastrin
Mass (kDA):
78.411 kDA
Human | |
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Location: | 1q23.2 |
Sequence: | 1; NC_000001.11 (160343328..160358949) |
Detected in brain (at protein level) (PubMed:10993067). Widely expressed (PubMed:11396676).
Membrane; Single-pass type I membrane protein. Cytoplasmic vesicle membrane; Single-pass type I membrane protein. Melanosome. Identified by mass spectrometry in melanosome fractions from stage I to stage IV.
PMID: 10993067 by Yu G., et al. Nicastrin modulates presenilin-mediated notch/glp-1 signal transduction and betaAPP processing.
PMID: 11396676 by Satoh J., et al. Nicastrin, a key regulator of presenilin function, is expressed constitutively in human neural cell lines.