UniProt Protein Function: | NDRG4: Contributes to the maintenance of intracerebral BDNF levels within the normal range, which is necessary for the preservation of spatial learning and the resistance to neuronal cell death caused by ischemic stress. May enhance growth factor-induced ERK1 and ERK2 phosphorylation, including that induced by PDGF and FGF. May attenuate NGF-promoted ELK1 phosphorylation in a microtubule-dependent manner. Expressed predominantly in brain and heart. In the brain, detected in astrocytes. Isoform 1 and isoform 2 are only expressed in brain. Isoform 3 is expressed in both heart and brain. Up-regulated in glioblastoma multiforme cells. Belongs to the NDRG family. 6 isoforms of the human protein are produced by alternative splicing. |
UniProt Protein Details: | Chromosomal Location of Human Ortholog: 16q21 Cellular Component: endoplasmic reticulum membrane; mitochondrion; basolateral plasma membrane; cytoplasm; cytosol Biological Process: negative regulation of smooth muscle cell proliferation; response to stress; embryonic heart tube development; cardiac muscle cell proliferation; heart looping; negative regulation of smooth muscle cell migration; cell differentiation; cell growth |
NCBI Summary: | This gene is a member of the N-myc downregulated gene family which belongs to the alpha/beta hydrolase superfamily. The protein encoded by this gene is a cytoplasmic protein that is required for cell cycle progression and survival in primary astrocytes and may be involved in the regulation of mitogenic signalling in vascular smooth muscles cells. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcripts encoding different isoforms.[provided by RefSeq, Jun 2011] |
UniProt Code: | Q9ULP0 |
NCBI GenInfo Identifier: | 20141614 |
NCBI Gene ID: | 65009 |
NCBI Accession: | Q9ULP0.2 |
UniProt Secondary Accession: | Q9ULP0,Q6ZNE7, Q6ZTI7, Q96PL9, Q9GZM1, Q9GZN3, Q9GZX0 B3KNU2, B4DK66, B4DSW5, H7C600, |
UniProt Related Accession: | Q9ULP0 |
Molecular Weight: | 352 |
NCBI Full Name: | Protein NDRG4 |
NCBI Synonym Full Names: | NDRG family member 4 |
NCBI Official Symbol: | NDRG4 |
NCBI Official Synonym Symbols: | BDM1; SMAP8; SMAP-8 |
NCBI Protein Information: | protein NDRG4; smooth muscle-associated protein 8; brain development-related molecule 1; N-myc downstream-regulated gene 4 protein; vascular smooth muscle cell-associated protein 8 |
UniProt Protein Name: | Protein NDRG4 |
UniProt Synonym Protein Names: | Brain development-related molecule 1; N-myc downstream-regulated gene 4 protein; Vascular smooth muscle cell-associated protein 8; SMAP-8 |
Protein Family: | Protein |
UniProt Gene Name: | NDRG4 |
UniProt Entry Name: | NDRG4_HUMAN |