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Facts about Netrin receptor UNC5A.
Mediates axon repulsion of neuronal growth cones in the developing nervous system in response to netrin (PubMed:10399920). Axon repulsion in growth cones may be mediated by its association with DCC that may trigger signaling for repulsion (PubMed:10399920).
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Gene Name: | Unc5a |
Uniprot: | O08721 |
Entrez: | 60629 |
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unc-5 family |
KIAA1976netrin receptor UNC5A; netrin receptor Unc5h1; Protein unc-5 homolog 1; Protein unc-5 homolog A; unc5 (C.elegans homolog) a; unc-5 homolog 1; unc-5 homolog A (C. elegans); UNC5A; UNC5H1; UNC5H1FLJ16449
Mass (kDA):
98.841 kDA
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Location: | 17p14 |
Sequence: | 17; |
Mainly expressed in regions of differentiating neurons. Expressed at early stages of neural tube development in the ventral spinal cord. In developing hindbrain, it colocalizes with a number of cranial motor neuron subpopulations from embryonic E11 to E14, while DCC is expressed by motor neurons at E12. Also expressed in non-neural structures, such as the basal plane of the hindbrain and midbrain, in the developing hypothalamus, thalamus and in the pallidum.
PMID: 9126742 by Leonardo E.D., et al. Vertebrate homologues of C. elegans UNC-5 are candidate netrin receptors.
PMID: 10399920 by Hong K., et al. A ligand-gated association between cytoplasmic domains of UNC5 and DCC family receptors converts netrin-induced growth cone attraction to repulsion.