FEZ1

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Fasciculation and elongation protein zeta-1 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the FEZ1 gene.

This gene is an ortholog of the C. elegans unc-76 gene, which is necessary for normal axonal bundling and elongation within axon bundles. Expression of this gene in C. elegans unc-76 mutants can restore to the mutants partial locomotion and axonal fasciculation, suggesting that it also functions in axonal outgrowth. The N-terminal half of the gene product is highly acidic. Alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding different isoforms of this protein have been described.

This protein is present in neurons, and it is believed to block the process of infection of these cells by HIV.

Interactions

FEZ1 has been shown to interact with Protein kinase Mζ, NBR1 and DISC1.

Further reading

• Kuroda S, Nakagawa N, Tokunaga C, et al. (1999). "Mammalian homologue of the Caenorhabditis elegans UNC-76 protein involved in axonal outgrowth is a protein kinase C zeta-interacting protein". J. Cell Biol. 144 (3): 403–11. doi:10.1083/jcb.144.3.403. PMC 2132904. PMID 9971736.
• Whitehouse C, Chambers J, Howe K, et al. (2002). "NBR1 interacts with fasciculation and elongation protein zeta-1 (FEZ1) and calcium and integrin binding protein (CIB) and shows developmentally restricted expression in the neural tube". Eur. J. Biochem. 269 (2): 538–45. doi:10.1046/j.0014-2956.2001.02681.x. PMID 11856312.
• Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH, et al. (2003). "Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99 (26): 16899–903. Bibcode:2002PNAS...9916899M. doi:10.1073/pnas.242603899. PMC 139241. PMID 12477932.
• Miyoshi K, Honda A, Baba K, et al. (2004). "Disrupted-In-Schizophrenia 1, a candidate gene for schizophrenia, participates in neurite outgrowth". Mol. Psychiatry. 8 (7): 685–94. doi:10.1038/sj.mp.4001352. PMID 12874605.
• Surpili MJ, Delben TM, Kobarg J (2004). "Identification of proteins that interact with the central coiled-coil region of the human protein kinase NEK1". Biochemistry. 42 (51): 15369–76. doi:10.1021/bi034575v. PMID 14690447.
• Goehler H, Lalowski M, Stelzl U, et al. (2004). "A protein interaction network links GIT1, an enhancer of huntingtin aggregation, to Huntington's disease". Mol. Cell. 15 (6): 853–65. doi:10.1016/j.molcel.2004.09.016. PMID 15383276.
• Okumura F, Hatakeyama S, Matsumoto M, et al. (2005). "Functional regulation of FEZ1 by the U-box-type ubiquitin ligase E4B contributes to neuritogenesis". J. Biol. Chem. 279 (51): 53533–43. doi:10.1074/jbc.M402916200. PMID 15466860.
• Gerhard DS, Wagner L, Feingold EA, et al. (2004). "The status, quality, and expansion of the NIH full-length cDNA project: the Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC)". Genome Res. 14 (10B): 2121–7. doi:10.1101/gr.2596504. PMC 528928. PMID 15489334.
• Yamada K, Nakamura K, Minabe Y, et al. (2005). "Association analysis of FEZ1 variants with schizophrenia in Japanese cohorts". Biol. Psychiatry. 56 (9): 683–90. doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2004.08.015. PMID 15522253.
• Stelzl U, Worm U, Lalowski M, et al. (2005). "A human protein-protein interaction network: a resource for annotating the proteome". Cell. 122 (6): 957–68. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2005.08.029. PMID 16169070.
• Assmann EM, Alborghetti MR, Camargo ME, Kobarg J (2006). "FEZ1 dimerization and interaction with transcription regulatory proteins involves its coiled-coil region". J. Biol. Chem. 281 (15): 9869–81. doi:10.1074/jbc.M513280200. PMID 16484223.
• Blasius TL, Cai D, Jih GT, et al. (2007). "Two binding partners cooperate to activate the molecular motor Kinesin-1". J. Cell Biol. 176 (1): 11–7. doi:10.1083/jcb.200605099. PMC 2063617. PMID 17200414.
• Koga M, Ishiguro H, Horiuchi Y, et al. (2007). "Failure to confirm the association between the FEZ1 gene and schizophrenia in a Japanese population". Neurosci. Lett. 417 (3): 326–9. doi:10.1016/j.neulet.2007.02.055. PMID 17374448.