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Facts about Glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor.
| Human | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | GDNF |
| Uniprot: | P39905 |
| Entrez: | 2668 |

| Belongs to: |
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| TGF-beta family |

Astrocyte-derived trophic factor; ATF; ATF1; ATF2; GDNF; glial cell derived neurotrophic factor; glial cell line derived neurotrophic factor; glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor; HFB1-GDNF; HGDNF; HSCR3
Mass (kDA):
23.72 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 5p13.2 |
| Sequence: | 5; NC_000005.10 (37812677..37840044, complement) |
In the brain, predominantly expressed in the striatum with highest levels in the caudate and lowest in the putamen. Isoform 2 is absent from most tissues except for low levels in intestine and kidney. Highest expression of isoform 3 is found in pancreatic islets. Isoform 5 is expressed at very low levels in putamen, nucleus accumbens, prefrontal cortex, amygdala, hypothalamus and intestine. Isoform 3 is up-regulated in the middle temporal gyrus of Alzheimer disease patients while isoform 2 shows no change.
Secreted.





PMID: 8493557 by Lin L.-F.H., et al. GDNF: a glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor for midbrain dopaminergic neurons.
PMID: 7867768 by Schaar D.G., et al. Multiple astrocyte transcripts encode nigral trophic factors in rat and human.
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