DISEASES

Disease-gene associations mined from literature

Literature on PIFO

PIFO [ENSP00000358753]

Protein pitchfork; During primary cilia disassembly, involved in cilia disassembly. Required specifically to control cilia retraction as well as the liberation and duplication of the basal body/centrosome. May act by stimulating AURKA activity at the basal body in a cell cycle- dependent manner.

Synonyms:  PIFO,  Q8TCI5,  Q8TCI5p,  hQ8TCI5,  128344 ...

Linkouts:  STRING  Pharos  UniProt