Dapper3 Background Information
Dapper3, also known as DACT3 (dapper, antagonist of beta-catenin, homolog 3) or RRR1, is a 629 amino acid protein and mammalian homolog of the Xenopus laevis protein dapper. As a member of the dapper family, Dapper3 plays a role in postnatal brain development and contains a C-terminal PDZ-binding motif that facilitates interaction with the PDZ domains of DSH (Dishevelled) family proteins. As the predominant dapper family member found in adult brain, Dapper 3 localizes to hippocampus, Purkinje cell layer and every layer of the dorsal forebrain and cerebral cortex and is also found in the developing murine central nervous system. Dapper3 is also expressed in uterus, ventral somites, branchial arch mesenchyme, aortic sac, aortic arches, limb bud mesenchyme and craniofacical mesenchyme. Mapping to human chromosome 19q13.32, Dapper3 has been identified as a negative regulator of Wnt/beta-catenin signaling in colorectal cancer.
