EMX1

EMX1 (Empty Spiracles Homeobox 1) is a Protein Coding gene. Diseases associated with EMX1 include Kallmann Syndrome. Gene Ontology (GO) annotations related to this gene include sequence-specific DNA binding. An important paralog of this gene is EMX2.

Full Name

Empty Spiracles Homeobox 1

Research Area

Transcription factor, which in cooperation with EMX2, acts to generate the boundary between the roof and archipallium in the developing brain. May function in combinations with OTX1/2 to specify cell fates in the developing central nervous system.

Biological Process

Brain development Source: GO_Central
Brain morphogenesis Source: Ensembl
Central nervous system development Source: GO_Central
Cerebral cortex neuron differentiation Source: Ensembl
Cerebral cortex regionalization Source: Ensembl
Homeostasis of number of cells Source: Ensembl
In utero embryonic development Source: Ensembl
Neuroepithelial cell differentiation Source: Ensembl
Neuron differentiation Source: GO_Central
Neuron projection extension Source: Ensembl
Post-embryonic development Source: Ensembl
Radial glial cell differentiation Source: Ensembl
Regulation of oligodendrocyte progenitor proliferation Source: Ensembl
Regulation of transcription by RNA polymerase II Source: GO_Central
Response to drug Source: Ensembl

Cellular Location

Nucleus; Cytoplasm. Might be shuttling between the nucleus and the cytoplasm.