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| Aliases | NPAT , E14, E14/p220, nuclear protein, co-activator of histone transcription, nuclear protein, coactivator of histone transcription | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| External IDs | OMIM: 601448 MGI: 107605 HomoloGene: 1888 GeneCards: NPAT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Protein NPAT also known as nuclear protein of the ATM locus is a protein that in humans is encoded by the NPAT gene. [5] [6]
NPAT (gene) has been shown to interact with Glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase [7] and POU2F1. [7]
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