PHD finger protein 10 (PHF10)

Belongs to the neural progenitors-specific chromatin remodeling complex (npBAF complicated ) and is necessary for the proliferation of neural progenitors. During neural development a change from a stem/progenitor into a post-mitotic chromatin remodeling mechanism occurs as neurons exit the cell cycle and become dedicated to their adult condition.

The transition from proliferating neural stem/progenitor cells into post-mitotic neurons requires a change in subunit composition of the npBAF and nBAF complexes. As neural progenitors exit mitosis and differentiate into neurons, npBAF complexes which contain ACTL6A/BAF53A and PHF10/BAF45A, are exchanged for homologous alternative ACTL6B/BAF53B and DPF1/BAF45B or DPF3/BAF45C subunits in neuron- specific complexes (nBAF).