Health Dictionary Find a Doctor

CEP350

Centrosome-associated protein 350 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the CEP350 gene.[1][2][3]

CEP350 is a large protein with a CAP-Gly domain typically found in cytoskeleton-associated proteins. It primarily localizes to the centrosome, a non-membraneous organelle that functions as the major microtubule-organizing center in animal cells. CEP350 is required to anchor microtubules at the centrosome. Furthermore, it increases the stability of growing centrioles.[4]

It is also implicated in the regulation of a class of nuclear hormone receptors in the nucleus. Several alternatively spliced transcript variants have been found, but their full-length nature has not been determined.[3]

References

References

  1. Yan X, Habedanck R, Nigg EA (Jan 2006). “A Complex of Two Centrosomal Proteins, CAP350 and FOP, Cooperates with EB1 in Microtubule Anchoring”. Mol Biol Cell. 17 (2): 634–44. doi:10.1091/mbc.E05-08-0810. PMC 1356575. PMID 16314388.
  2. Patel H, Truant R, Rachubinski RA, Capone JP (Dec 2004). “Activity and subcellular compartmentalization of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor alpha are altered by the centrosome-associated protein CAP350”. J Cell Sci. 118 (Pt 1): 175–86. doi:10.1242/jcs.01600. PMID 15615782.
  3. 3.0 3.1 “Entrez Gene: CEP350 centrosomal protein 350kDa”.
  4. Le Clech, M (2008). “Role of CAP350 in centriolar tubule stability and centriole assembly”. PLoS ONE. 3 (12): e3855. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0003855. PMC 2586089. PMID 19052644.
External links
Further reading

Further reading



Looking for the patient version?

Back to the patient-friendly article

© 2026 MyEClinic – IFTM Institut für Telematik in der Medizin GmbH