neuronal PAS domain-containing protein 1 (neuronal PAS1, member of PAS protein 5, basic-helix-loop-helix-PAS protein MOP5, NPAS1, MOP5)

Function

• may control regulatory pathways relevant to schizophrenia & to psychosis
• may play a role in late central nervous system development by modulating EPO expression in response to cellular oxygen
• efficient DNA binding requires dimerization with another bHLH protein
• interacts with ARNT

Compartment

nucleus

More general terms

• DNA-binding protein

Database

• OMIM: https://mirror.omim.org/entry/603346
• UniProt: http://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/Q99742.html