ID:PRAX_HUMAN DESCRIPTION: RecName: Full=Periaxin; FUNCTION: Seems to be required for maintenance of peripheral nerve myelin sheath. May have a role in axon-glial interactions, possibly by interacting with the cytoplasmic domains of integral membrane proteins such as myelin-associated glycoprotein in the periaxonal regions of the Schwann cell plasma membrane. May have a role in the early phases of myelin deposition. SUBUNIT: Interacts with SCN10A. Found in a complex with SCN10A. INTERACTION: P16333:NCK1; NbExp=2; IntAct=EBI-1753064, EBI-389883; SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: Nucleus (By similarity). SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: Isoform 1: Cell membrane (By similarity). Note=Associated with plasma membrane during myelination (By similarity). SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: Isoform 2: Cytoplasm (By similarity). TISSUE SPECIFICITY: Isoform 1 and isoform 2 are found in sciatic nerve and Schwann cells. DOMAIN: Has a remarkable domain of repetitive pentameric units sometimes followed by a tripeptide spacer, it may separate two functional basic and acidic domains. DOMAIN: The Arg/Lys-rich basic domain functions as a tripartite nuclear localization signal. DISEASE: Defects in PRX are a cause of Dejerine-Sottas syndrome (DSS) [MIM:145900]; also known as Dejerine-Sottas neuropathy (DSN) or hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy III (HMSN3). DSS is a severe degenerating neuropathy of the demyelinating Charcot-Marie- Tooth disease category, with onset by age 2 years. DSS is characterized by motor and sensory neuropathy with very slow nerve conduction velocities, increased cerebrospinal fluid protein concentrations, hypertrophic nerve changes, delayed age of walking as well as areflexia. There are both autosomal dominant and autosomal recessive forms of Dejerine-Sottas syndrome. SIMILARITY: Belongs to the periaxin family. SIMILARITY: Contains 1 PDZ (DHR) domain. SEQUENCE CAUTION: Sequence=BAB13446.1; Type=Erroneous initiation; Note=Translation N-terminally shortened; Sequence=BAB13446.1; Type=Miscellaneous discrepancy; Note=Aberrant splicing; WEB RESOURCE: Name=Inherited peripheral neuropathies mutation db; URL="http://www.molgen.ua.ac.be/CMTMutations/"; WEB RESOURCE: Name=GeneReviews; URL="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/GeneTests/lab/gene/PRX";
The RNAfold program from the Vienna RNA Package is used to perform the secondary structure predictions and folding calculations. The estimated folding energy is in kcal/mol. The more negative the energy, the more secondary structure the RNA is likely to have.
ModBase Predicted Comparative 3D Structure on Q9BXM0
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Orthologous Genes in Other Species
Orthologies between human, mouse, and rat are computed by taking the best BLASTP hit, and filtering out non-syntenic hits. For more distant species reciprocal-best BLASTP hits are used. Note that the absence of an ortholog in the table below may reflect incomplete annotations in the other species rather than a true absence of the orthologous gene.
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Common Gene Haplotype Alleles 
