Description
Product Characteristics: The teneurin transmembrane protein 1 (TENM1) is a member of a family of four neuronal cell surface proteins homologous to the Drosophila pair-rule gene Ten-m (1,2). TENM1 is expressed primarily in the developing central nervous system and may be proteolytically cleaved with the intracellular domain translocating to the nucleus (3). TENM1 is a direct target of the homeobox transcription factor EMX2, a transcription factor thought to be important for area specification in the developing cortex (4).
Target Information: The protein encoded by this gene belongs to the tenascin family and teneurin subfamily. It is expressed in the neurons and may function as a cellular signal transducer. Several alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been found for this gene. [provided by RefSeq, Sep 2009]