Entrez Summary: This gene encodes an adhesive junction associated protein of the armadillo/beta-catenin superfamily and is implicated in brain and eye development and cancer formation. The protein encoded by this gene promotes the disruption of E-cadherin based adherens junction to favor cell spreading upon stimulation by hepatocyte growth factor. This gene is overexpressed in prostate adenocarcinomas and is associated with decreased expression of tumor suppressor E-cadherin in this tissue. This gene resides in a region of the short arm of chromosome 5 that is deleted in Cri du Chat syndrome. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants encoding different isoforms. [provided by RefSeq, Dec 2013].
UniProt Summary: N/A
Pfam DomainsGO Terms
Pfam Domains
Arm
GO Terms
dendritic spine morphogenesis
dendritic spine development
dendritic spine organization
neuron projection organization
dendrite morphogenesis
beta-catenin binding
postsynapse organization
dendrite development
cell-cell adherens junction
cell-cell junction assembly
perikaryon
cell-cell junction organization
cell junction assembly
cell-cell junction
cell junction organization
postsynaptic density
synapse organization
regulation of canonical Wnt signaling pathway
cadherin binding
Wnt signaling pathway
cell-cell signaling by wnt
regulation of Wnt signaling pathway
dendrite
cell surface receptor signaling pathway involved in cell-cell signaling
cell morphogenesis involved in neuron differentiation