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SUFU

Suppressor of fused homolog is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SUFU gene.[1][2]

Function

Function

SUFU encodes a component of the sonic hedgehog (SHH) / patched (PTCH) signaling pathway. Mutations in genes encoding components of this pathway are deleterious for normal development and are associated with cancer-predisposing syndromes (e.g., holoprosencephaly, HPE3; basal cell nevus syndrome, BCNS; and Greig cephalopolysyndactyly syndrome; GCPS).[2]

Interactions

Interactions

SUFU has been shown to interact with GLI1,[3][4][5] GLI3[6] and PEX26.[7]

References

References

  1. Merchant M, Vajdos FF, Ultsch M, Maun HR, Wendt U, Cannon J, Desmarais W, Lazarus RA, de Vos AM, de Sauvage FJ (Sep 2004). “Suppressor of fused regulates Gli activity through a dual binding mechanism”. Mol Cell Biol. 24 (19): 8627–41. doi:10.1128/MCB.24.19.8627-8641.2004. PMC 516763. PMID 15367681.
  2. 2.0 2.1 “Entrez Gene: SUFU suppressor of fused homolog (Drosophila)”.
  3. Stone DM, Murone M, Luoh S, Ye W, Armanini MP, Gurney A, Phillips H, Brush J, Goddard A, de Sauvage FJ, Rosenthal A (December 1999). “Characterization of the human suppressor of fused, a negative regulator of the zinc-finger transcription factor Gli”. J. Cell Sci. 112 (23): 4437–48. PMID 10564661.
  4. Kogerman P, Grimm T, Kogerman L, Krause D, Undén AB, Sandstedt B, Toftgård R, Zaphiropoulos PG (September 1999). “Mammalian suppressor-of-fused modulates nuclear-cytoplasmic shuttling of Gli-1”. Nat. Cell Biol. 1 (5): 312–9. doi:10.1038/13031. PMID 10559945.
  5. Dunaeva M, Michelson P, Kogerman P, Toftgard R (February 2003). “Characterization of the physical interaction of Gli proteins with SUFU proteins”. J. Biol. Chem. 278 (7): 5116–22. doi:10.1074/jbc.M209492200. PMID 12426310.
  6. Humke EW, Dorn KV, Milenkovic L, Scott MP, Rohatgi R (April 2010). “The output of Hedgehog signaling is controlled by the dynamic association between Suppressor of Fused and the Gli proteins”. Genes Dev. 24 (7): 670–82. doi:10.1101/gad.1902910. PMC 2849124. PMID 20360384.
  7. Rual JF, Venkatesan K, Hao T, Hirozane-Kishikawa T, Dricot A, Li N, Berriz GF, Gibbons FD, Dreze M, Ayivi-Guedehoussou N, Klitgord N, Simon C, Boxem M, Milstein S, Rosenberg J, Goldberg DS, Zhang LV, Wong SL, Franklin G, Li S, Albala JS, Lim J, Fraughton C, Llamosas E, Cevik S, Bex C, Lamesch P, Sikorski RS, Vandenhaute J, Zoghbi HY, Smolyar A, Bosak S, Sequerra R, Doucette-Stamm L, Cusick ME, Hill DE, Roth FP, Vidal M (October 2005). “Towards a proteome-scale map of the human protein-protein interaction network”. Nature. 437 (7062): 1173–8. doi:10.1038/nature04209. PMID 16189514.
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