Also known as NEF3, NF-M, NFM, neurofilament, medium polypeptide, neurofilament medium, neurofilament medium chain
Neurofilament medium polypeptide (NF-M) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the NEFM gene.
Neurofilaments are type IV intermediate filament heteropolymers composed of light, medium, and heavy chains. Neurofilaments comprise the axoskeleton and functionally maintain neuronal caliber. They may also play a role in intracellular transport to axons and dendrites. This gene encodes the medium neurofilament protein. This protein is commonly used as a biomarker of neuronal damage. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants encoding distinct isoforms. [provided by RefSeq, Oct 2008].
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Neurofilament medium polypeptide (NF-M) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the NEFM gene.
== Function ==
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).