XB-FEAT-876556

neff1

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nomenclature changes

05MAY2023

Xenopus gene symbol and name changed from nif, low molecular weight neuronal intermediate filament to neff1, neuronal intermediate filament family member 1

background to nomenclature changes

05May2023

NCBI refSeq and HGNC communicated the following....

...there seems to be some confusion in the Xenbase "nif" record XB-GENEPAGE-876556: there is an unrelated gene that has also been published as "XNIF" (PMID 15294863/AY280863) which from BLATing the sequence maps to chr 6 and appears to be ctdspl, and so rather confusingly the CTDSPL synonym is listed in the real "nif" gene record. And PMID 2307698 which talks about the unrelated "NIF-1" and "NIF-2" has crept into the "nif" record and I think it should be removed.

Overall, this confusion from the various uses of 'nif' - added to the fact that "NIF" is an alias for several mammalian genes - makes me think "nif" is not an ideal symbol. It seems only one group (BG Szaro) have published this Xenopus gene as NIF/XNIF/nif.

After some discussion , it was decided changes for the "nif" [XB-GENEPAGE-876556] genes at Xenbase and Zfin as follows:

SYMBOL: NEFF1 (found in Xenopus) NAME: neuronal intermediate filament family member 1 ALIAS: nif

and "NEFLL" genes: SYMBOL: NEFF2 (LOST IN FROGS) NAME: neuronal intermediate filament family member 2 ALIAS:

Xenbase actions: 1) removed 2 synonyms (Xnif and CTDSPL) from the "nif " gene page [XB-GENEPAGE-876556]

2) updated nomenclature to neff1, neuronal intermediate filament family member 1, with synonyms: nif

synteny in vertebrates

NEFL & NEFM - no loss

synteny conserved back to chondrichtyes as NEFL> NEFM<

tetrapods share DOCK5< NEFL> NEFM< ADAM#>...STC1>

NEFH- no loss synteny conserved back to chondricthyes, generally, as

AP1B1< NEFH> THOC5< NIPSNAP1<

NEFLL- lost in mammals and frogs(now called NEFF2)

Podarcis shows ancestral state: LBX2< PCGF1< TLX2> nefll> il12b-like< DQX1< insyn2b< bnip3L< AUP1< HTRA2>

Human shows mammalian state: LBX2< PCGF1< TLX2> DQX1< AUP1< HTRA2>

INA- no loss

synteny generally conserved back to chondrichthyes as NT5C2< INA> PCGF6< TAF5>

NIF - lost in birds, caecilians, and mammals. ( now neff1) '

synteny in tetrapods is generally MXD1> NIF> C2orf42<

synteny in lungfish, gar, D. rerio is MXD1> NIF>