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N-myc interactor, NMI, was first characterized as an interactor of c-Myc and n-Myc using a yeast two-hybrid screen. Since its initial discovery, NMI has been studied for its roles in viral pathologies and more extensively for its role in cancer progression. However, literature describing the role of NMI function in normal physiology is relatively unknown aside from inferences from its roles in various pathologies. NMI is a protein mostly studied for its associations with known transcription factors. In humans, expression profiling has determined that NMI is expressed in all fetal tissues except in the brain and primarily in the adult spleen, liver, and kidneys. The human NMI gene is located on chromosome 2q23 and contains three exons that can form four alternatively spliced mRNA transcripts; two with no retained introns code for protein products (Bao and Zervos 1996). NMI’s expression is largely...
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Metge, B.J., Pruitt, H.C., Shevde, L.A., Samant, R.S. (2018). N-Myc and STAT Interactor (NMI). In: Choi, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of Signaling Molecules. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67199-4_101778
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