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A new standard nomenclature for proteins related to Apx and Shroom.

BMC cell biology (2006-04-18)
Olivier Hagens, Andrea Ballabio, Vera Kalscheuer, Jean-Pierre Kraehenbuhl, M Vittoria Schiaffino, Peter Smith, Olivier Staub, Jeff Hildebrand, John B Wallingford
PMID16615870
ABSTRACT

Shroom is a recently-described regulator of cell shape changes in the developing nervous system. This protein is a member of a small family of related proteins that are defined by sequence similarity and in most cases by some link to the actin cytoskeleton. At present these proteins are named Shroom, APX, APXL, and KIAA1202. In light of the growing interest in this family of proteins, we propose here a new standard nomenclature.