Alternative Names
ADIP; ADIP_HUMAN; Afadin and alpha actinin binding protein; Afadin DIL domain interacting protein; Afadin DIL domain-interacting protein; Afadin- and alpha-actinin-binding protein; FLJ10848; KIAA0923; MGC75026; OTTHUMP00000011574; SSX 2 interacting protein; SSX2 interacting protein; SSX2-interacting protein; SSX2IP; Synovial sarcoma X breakpoint 2 interacting protein
Function
Belongs to an adhesion system, which plays a role in the organization of homotypic, interneuronal and heterotypic cell-cell adherens junctions. May connect the nectin-afadin and E-cadherin-catenin system through alpha-actinin and may be involved in organization of the actin cytoskeleton at AJs through afadin and alpha-actinin.
Tissue Specificity
Widely expressed, with the highest expression in brain, intermediate expression in kidney, testis, spinal cord, liver, heart, lung, skeletal muscle, ovary, fetal liver and fetal brain, and little to no expression in pancreas and spleen. All specific brain regions showed intermediate to high expression, with highest expression in amygdala. Also expressed in fetal tissues, mainly in liver and brain.
