Reviewed, UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot P23528 (COF1_HUMAN)

Names and origin

Protein names

Recommended name:
    Cofilin-1
Alternative name(s):
    Cofilin, non-muscle isoform
    18 kDa phosphoprotein
    p18

Gene names

Name:	CFL1
Synonyms:	CFL

Organism

Homo sapiens (Human) [Complete proteome]

Taxonomic identifier

9606 [NCBI]

Taxonomic lineage

Eukaryota › Metazoa › Chordata › Craniata › Vertebrata › Euteleostomi › Mammalia › Eutheria › Euarchontoglires › Primates › Haplorrhini › Catarrhini › Hominidae › Homo

Protein attributes

Sequence length	166 AA.
Sequence status	Complete.
Sequence processing	The displayed sequence is further processed into a mature form.
Protein existence	Evidence at protein level.

General annotation (Comments)

Function	Controls reversibly actin polymerization and depolymerization in a pH-sensitive manner. It has the ability to bind G- and F-actin in a 1:1 ratio of cofilin to actin. It is the major component of intranuclear and cytoplasmic actin rods.
Subcellular location	Nucleus matrix. Cytoplasm › cytoskeleton. Note: Almost completely in nucleus in cells exposed to heat shock or 10% dimethyl sulfoxide.
Tissue specificity	Widely distributed in various tissues.
Post-translational modification	Phosphorylated on Ser-3 in resting cells By similarity.
Sequence similarities	Belongs to the actin-binding proteins ADF family. Contains 1 ADF-H domain.

Ontologies

Keywords
Cellular component	Cytoplasm Cytoskeleton Nucleus
Ligand	Actin-binding
PTM	Acetylation Phosphoprotein
Technical term	3D-structure Complete proteome Direct protein sequencing
Gene Ontology (GO)
Biological process	Rho protein signal transduction Traceable author statement. Source: ProtInc anti-apoptosis Traceable author statement. Source: UniProtKB
Cellular component	nuclear matrix Inferred from electronic annotation. Source: UniProtKB-SubCell
Molecular function	actin binding Inferred from electronic annotation. Source: UniProtKB-KW
Complete GO annotation...

Binary interactions

With	Entry	#Exp.	IntAct	Notes
ATXN1	P54253	1	EBI-352733,EBI-930964
TAGLN	Q01995	1	EBI-352733,EBI-1054248
YWHAZ	P63104	1	EBI-352733,EBI-347088

Sequence annotation (Features)

Feature key

Position(s)

Length

Description

Graphical view

Feature identifier

Molecule processing

Initiator methionine

1

1

Removed Ref.8 Ref.7

Chain

2 – 166

165

Cofilin-1

PRO_0000214898

Regions

Domain

4 – 153

150

ADF-H

Motif

30 – 34

5

Nuclear localization signal Potential

Amino acid modifications

Modified residue

2

1

N-acetylalanine Ref.7

Modified residue

3

1

Phosphoserine; by NRK Ref.12 Ref.14 Ref.18

Modified residue

8

1

Phosphoserine By similarity

Modified residue

13

1

N6-acetyllysine Ref.23

Modified residue

19

1

N6-acetyllysine Ref.23

Modified residue

25

1

Phosphothreonine Ref.14

Modified residue

41

1

Phosphoserine Ref.18

Modified residue

68

1

Phosphotyrosine

Modified residue

73

1

N6-acetyllysine Ref.23

Modified residue

89

1

Phosphotyrosine Ref.21

Modified residue

132

1

N6-acetyllysine Ref.15

Modified residue

140

1

Phosphotyrosine Ref.21 Ref.13 Ref.17

Modified residue

144

1

N6-acetyllysine Ref.23

Modified residue

156

1

Phosphoserine Ref.18 Ref.16

Secondary structure

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166

Helix Strand Turn

Details...

Helix

10 – 20

11

Helix

26 – 29

4

Beta strand

33 – 40

8

Beta strand

42 – 45

4

Beta strand

47 – 57

11

Helix

58 – 60

3

Turn

61 – 63

3

Helix

67 – 73

7

Beta strand

89 – 93

5

Beta strand

99 – 104

6

Helix

111 – 113

3

Helix

115 – 128

14

Beta strand

132 – 139

8

Helix

140 – 143

4

Helix

146 – 149

4

Turn

150 – 154

5

Helix

155 – 157

3

Beta strand

161 – 164

4

Sequences

	Sequence		Length	Mass (Da)
	P23528-1 [UniParc]. Last modified January 23, 2007. Version 3. Checksum: 589EF8FC1EC13719	FASTA	166	18,502
	10 20 30 40 50 60 MASGVAVSDG VIKVFNDMKV RKSSTPEEVK KRKKAVLFCL SEDKKNIILE EGKEILVGDV 70 80 90 100 110 120 GQTVDDPYAT FVKMLPDKDC RYALYDATYE TKESKKEDLV FIFWAPESAP LKSKMIYASS 130 140 150 160 KDAIKKKLTG IKHELQANCY EEVKDRCTLA EKLGGSAVIS LEGKPL

References

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[1]	"Coding sequence of human placenta cofilin cDNA." Ogawa K., Tashima M., Yumoto Y., Okuda T., Sawada H., Okuma M., Maruyama Y. Nucleic Acids Res. 18:7169-7169(1990) [PubMed: 2263493] [Abstract] Cited for: NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE [MRNA]. Tissue: Placenta.
[2]	"A provisional transcript map of the spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) critical region." van der Steege G., Draaijers T.G., Grootscholten P.M., Osinga J., Anzevino R., Velona I., Den Dunnen J.T., Scheffer H., Brahe C., van Ommen G.J.B., Buys C.H.C.M. Eur. J. Hum. Genet. 3:87-95(1995) [PubMed: 7552146] [Abstract] Cited for: NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE [MRNA]. Tissue: Pre-B cell.
[3]	"Mapping of human non-muscle type cofilin (CFL1) to chromosome 11q13 and muscle-type cofilin (CFL2) to chromosome 14." Gillett G.T., Fox M.F., Rowe P.S.N., Casimir C.M., Povey S. Ann. Hum. Genet. 60:201-211(1996) [PubMed: 8800436] [Abstract] Cited for: NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE [MRNA].
[4]	"Cloning of human full-length CDSs in BD Creator(TM) system donor vector." Kalnine N., Chen X., Rolfs A., Halleck A., Hines L., Eisenstein S., Koundinya M., Raphael J., Moreira D., Kelley T., LaBaer J., Lin Y., Phelan M., Farmer A. Submitted (MAY-2003) to the EMBL/GenBank/DDBJ databases Cited for: NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE [LARGE SCALE MRNA].
[5]	"Complete sequencing and characterization of 21,243 full-length human cDNAs." Ota T., Suzuki Y., Nishikawa T., Otsuki T., Sugiyama T., Irie R., Wakamatsu A., Hayashi K., Sato H., Nagai K., Kimura K., Makita H., Sekine M., Obayashi M., Nishi T., Shibahara T., Tanaka T., Ishii S. , Yamamoto J., Saito K., Kawai Y., Isono Y., Nakamura Y., Nagahari K., Murakami K., Yasuda T., Iwayanagi T., Wagatsuma M., Shiratori A., Sudo H., Hosoiri T., Kaku Y., Kodaira H., Kondo H., Sugawara M., Takahashi M., Kanda K., Yokoi T., Furuya T., Kikkawa E., Omura Y., Abe K., Kamihara K., Katsuta N., Sato K., Tanikawa M., Yamazaki M., Ninomiya K., Ishibashi T., Yamashita H., Murakawa K., Fujimori K., Tanai H., Kimata M., Watanabe M., Hiraoka S., Chiba Y., Ishida S., Ono Y., Takiguchi S., Watanabe S., Yosida M., Hotuta T., Kusano J., Kanehori K., Takahashi-Fujii A., Hara H., Tanase T.-O., Nomura Y., Togiya S., Komai F., Hara R., Takeuchi K., Arita M., Imose N., Musashino K., Yuuki H., Oshima A., Sasaki N., Aotsuka S., Yoshikawa Y., Matsunawa H., Ichihara T., Shiohata N., Sano S., Moriya S., Momiyama H., Satoh N., Takami S., Terashima Y., Suzuki O., Nakagawa S., Senoh A., Mizoguchi H., Goto Y., Shimizu F., Wakebe H., Hishigaki H., Watanabe T., Sugiyama A., Takemoto M., Kawakami B., Yamazaki M., Watanabe K., Kumagai A., Itakura S., Fukuzumi Y., Fujimori Y., Komiyama M., Tashiro H., Tanigami A., Fujiwara T., Ono T., Yamada K., Fujii Y., Ozaki K., Hirao M., Ohmori Y., Kawabata A., Hikiji T., Kobatake N., Inagaki H., Ikema Y., Okamoto S., Okitani R., Kawakami T., Noguchi S., Itoh T., Shigeta K., Senba T., Matsumura K., Nakajima Y., Mizuno T., Morinaga M., Sasaki M., Togashi T., Oyama M., Hata H., Watanabe M., Komatsu T., Mizushima-Sugano J., Satoh T., Shirai Y., Takahashi Y., Nakagawa K., Okumura K., Nagase T., Nomura N., Kikuchi H., Masuho Y., Yamashita R., Nakai K., Yada T., Nakamura Y., Ohara O., Isogai T., Sugano S. Nat. Genet. 36:40-45(2004) [PubMed: 14702039] [Abstract] Cited for: NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE [LARGE SCALE MRNA]. Tissue: Testis.
[6]	Mural R.J., Istrail S., Sutton G.G., Florea L., Halpern A.L., Mobarry C.M., Lippert R., Walenz B., Shatkay H., Dew I., Miller J.R., Flanigan M.J., Edwards N.J., Bolanos R., Fasulo D., Halldorsson B.V., Hannenhalli S., Turner R. , Yooseph S., Lu F., Nusskern D.R., Shue B.C., Zheng X.H., Zhong F., Delcher A.L., Huson D.H., Kravitz S.A., Mouchard L., Reinert K., Remington K.A., Clark A.G., Waterman M.S., Eichler E.E., Adams M.D., Hunkapiller M.W., Myers E.W., Venter J.C. Submitted (JUL-2005) to the EMBL/GenBank/DDBJ databases Cited for: NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE [LARGE SCALE GENOMIC DNA].
[7]	"The status, quality, and expansion of the NIH full-length cDNA project: the Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC)." The MGC Project Team Genome Res. 14:2121-2127(2004) [PubMed: 15489334] [Abstract] Cited for: NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE [LARGE SCALE MRNA]. Tissue: Lung, Ovary, Placenta and Uterus.
[8]	"Exploring proteomes and analyzing protein processing by mass spectrometric identification of sorted N-terminal peptides." Gevaert K., Goethals M., Martens L., Van Damme J., Staes A., Thomas G.R., Vandekerckhove J. Nat. Biotechnol. 21:566-569(2003) [PubMed: 12665801] [Abstract] Cited for: PROTEIN SEQUENCE OF 2-21. Tissue: Platelet.
[9]	Quadroni M., Bienvenut W.V. Submitted (MAR-2005) to UniProtKB Cited for: PROTEIN SEQUENCE OF 2-13 AND 54-73, CLEAVAGE OF INITIATOR METHIONINE, ACETYLATION AT ALA-2, MASS SPECTROMETRY. Tissue: B-cell lymphoma.
[10]	Lubec G., Vishwanath V., Chen W.-Q., Sun Y. Submitted (DEC-2008) to UniProtKB Cited for: PROTEIN SEQUENCE OF 34-45; 54-73; 82-92; 96-112; 133-146 AND 153-166, MASS SPECTROMETRY. Tissue: Brain, Cajal-Retzius cell and Fetal brain cortex.
[11]	"Dephosphorylation of cofilin in stimulated platelets: roles for a GTP-binding protein and Ca2+." Davidson M.M., Haslam R.J. Biochem. J. 301:41-47(1994) [PubMed: 8037689] [Abstract] Cited for: PROTEIN SEQUENCE OF 52-71. Tissue: Platelet.
[12]	"Cofilin phosphorylation and actin polymerization by NRK/NESK, a member of the germinal center kinase family." Nakano K., Kanai-Azuma M., Kanai Y., Moriyama K., Yazaki K., Hayashi Y., Kitamura N. Exp. Cell Res. 287:219-227(2003) [PubMed: 12837278] [Abstract] Cited for: PHOSPHORYLATION AT SER-3 BY NRK.
[13]	"Immunoaffinity profiling of tyrosine phosphorylation in cancer cells." Rush J., Moritz A., Lee K.A., Guo A., Goss V.L., Spek E.J., Zhang H., Zha X.-M., Polakiewicz R.D., Comb M.J. Nat. Biotechnol. 23:94-101(2005) [PubMed: 15592455] [Abstract] Cited for: PHOSPHORYLATION [LARGE SCALE ANALYSIS] AT TYR-140, MASS SPECTROMETRY.
[14]	"Global, in vivo, and site-specific phosphorylation dynamics in signaling networks." Olsen J.V., Blagoev B., Gnad F., Macek B., Kumar C., Mortensen P., Mann M. Cell 127:635-648(2006) [PubMed: 17081983] [Abstract] Cited for: PHOSPHORYLATION [LARGE SCALE ANALYSIS] AT SER-3 AND THR-25, MASS SPECTROMETRY. Tissue: Epithelium.
[15]	"Substrate and functional diversity of lysine acetylation revealed by a proteomics survey." Kim S.C., Sprung R., Chen Y., Xu Y., Ball H., Pei J., Cheng T., Kho Y., Xiao H., Xiao L., Grishin N.V., White M., Yang X.-J., Zhao Y. Mol. Cell 23:607-618(2006) [PubMed: 16916647] [Abstract] Cited for: ACETYLATION [LARGE SCALE ANALYSIS] AT LYS-132, MASS SPECTROMETRY. Tissue: Epithelium.
[16]	"A probability-based approach for high-throughput protein phosphorylation analysis and site localization." Beausoleil S.A., Villen J., Gerber S.A., Rush J., Gygi S.P. Nat. Biotechnol. 24:1285-1292(2006) [PubMed: 16964243] [Abstract] Cited for: PHOSPHORYLATION [LARGE SCALE ANALYSIS] AT SER-156, MASS SPECTROMETRY. Tissue: Epithelium.
[17]	"Global survey of phosphotyrosine signaling identifies oncogenic kinases in lung cancer." Rikova K., Guo A., Zeng Q., Possemato A., Yu J., Haack H., Nardone J., Lee K., Reeves C., Li Y., Hu Y., Tan Z., Stokes M., Sullivan L., Mitchell J., Wetzel R., Macneill J., Ren J.M. , Yuan J., Bakalarski C.E., Villen J., Kornhauser J.M., Smith B., Li D., Zhou X., Gygi S.P., Gu T.-L., Polakiewicz R.D., Rush J., Comb M.J. Cell 131:1190-1203(2007) [PubMed: 18083107] [Abstract] Cited for: PHOSPHORYLATION [LARGE SCALE ANALYSIS] AT TYR-140, MASS SPECTROMETRY.
[18]	"A quantitative atlas of mitotic phosphorylation." Dephoure N., Zhou C., Villen J., Beausoleil S.A., Bakalarski C.E., Elledge S.J., Gygi S.P. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 105:10762-10767(2008) [PubMed: 18669648] [Abstract] Cited for: PHOSPHORYLATION [LARGE SCALE ANALYSIS] AT SER-3; SER-41 AND SER-156, MASS SPECTROMETRY.
[19]	Colinge J., Superti-Furga G., Bennett K.L. Submitted (OCT-2008) to UniProtKB Cited for: IDENTIFICATION [LARGE SCALE ANALYSIS], MASS SPECTROMETRY.
[20]	"Lys-N and trypsin cover complementary parts of the phosphoproteome in a refined SCX-based approach." Gauci S., Helbig A.O., Slijper M., Krijgsveld J., Heck A.J., Mohammed S. Anal. Chem. 81:4493-4501(2009) [PubMed: 19413330] [Abstract] Cited for: ACETYLATION [LARGE SCALE ANALYSIS] AT ALA-2, PHOSPHORYLATION [LARGE SCALE ANALYSIS] AT SER-3, MASS SPECTROMETRY.
[21]	"An extensive survey of tyrosine phosphorylation revealing new sites in human mammary epithelial cells." Heibeck T.H., Ding S.-J., Opresko L.K., Zhao R., Schepmoes A.A., Yang F., Tolmachev A.V., Monroe M.E., Camp D.G. II, Smith R.D., Wiley H.S., Qian W.-J. J. Proteome Res. 8:3852-3861(2009) [PubMed: 19534553] [Abstract] Cited for: PHOSPHORYLATION [LARGE SCALE ANALYSIS] AT TYR-89 AND TYR-140, MASS SPECTROMETRY. Tissue: Mammary epithelium.
[22]	"Quantitative phosphoproteomic analysis of T cell receptor signaling reveals system-wide modulation of protein-protein interactions." Mayya V., Lundgren D.H., Hwang S.-I., Rezaul K., Wu L., Eng J.K., Rodionov V., Han D.K. Sci. Signal. 2:RA46-RA46(2009) [PubMed: 19690332] [Abstract] Cited for: PHOSPHORYLATION [LARGE SCALE ANALYSIS] AT SER-3; TYR-68 AND SER-156, MASS SPECTROMETRY. Tissue: T-cell.
[23]	"Lysine acetylation targets protein complexes and co-regulates major cellular functions." Choudhary C., Kumar C., Gnad F., Nielsen M.L., Rehman M., Walther T., Olsen J.V., Mann M. Science 325:834-840(2009) [PubMed: 19608861] [Abstract] Cited for: ACETYLATION [LARGE SCALE ANALYSIS] AT LYS-13; LYS-19; LYS-73 AND LYS-144, MASS SPECTROMETRY.
[24]	"Solution structure of human cofilin: actin binding, pH sensitivity, and relationship to actin-depolymerizing factor." Pope B.J., Zierler-Gould K.M., Kuhne R., Weeds A.G., Ball L.J. J. Biol. Chem. 279:4840-4848(2004) [PubMed: 14627701] [Abstract] Cited for: STRUCTURE BY NMR.
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Web resources

Wikipedia

Cofilin entry

Cross-references

Sequence databases

EMBLGenBankDDBJ

D00682 mRNA. Translation: BAA00589.1.
U21909 mRNA. Translation: AAA64501.1.
X95404 mRNA. Translation: CAA64685.1.
BT006846 mRNA. Translation: AAP35492.1.
AK097690 mRNA. Translation: BAG53513.1.
CH471076 Genomic DNA. Translation: EAW74449.1.
BC011005 mRNA. Translation: AAH11005.1.
BC012265 mRNA. Translation: AAH12265.1.
BC012318 mRNA. Translation: AAH12318.1.
BC018256 mRNA. Translation: AAH18256.1.

IPI

IPI00012011.

PIR

S12632.

RefSeq

NP_005498.1.

UniGene

Hs.170622

3D structure databases

PDBPDBe

Entry	Method	Resolution (Å)	Chain	Positions	PDBsum
1Q8G	NMR	-	A	1-166	[»]
1Q8X	NMR	-	A	1-166	[»]

ModBase

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Protein-protein interaction databases

IntAct

P23528. 10 interactions.

STRING

P23528.

PTM databases

PhosphoSite

P23528.

2-D gel databases

SWISS-2DPAGE

P23528.

Aarhus/Ghent-2DPAGE

4. IEF.

DOSAC-COBS-2DPAGE

P23528.

OGP

P23528.

REPRODUCTION-2DPAGE

IPI00012011.

Proteomic databases

PRIDE

P23528.

Genome annotation databases

Ensembl

ENST00000308162; ENSP00000309629; ENSG00000172757; Homo sapiens. [Genome view]

GeneID

1072.

KEGG

hsa:1072.

UCSC

uc001ofs.1. human.

Organism-specific databases

CTD

1072.

GeneCards

GC11M065378.

H-InvDB

HIX0009808.

HGNC

HGNC:1874. CFL1.

MIM

601442. gene.

PharmGKB

PA26423.

GenAtlas

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Phylogenomic databases

HOGENOM

P23528.

HOVERGEN

P23528.

OMA

EPPPAPC

OrthoDB

EOG9MPM91

Enzyme and pathway databases

Reactome

REACT_18266. Axon guidance.
REACT_604. Hemostasis.

Gene expression databases

ArrayExpress

P23528.

Bgee

P23528.

Genevestigator

P23528.

GermOnline

ENSG00000172757. Homo sapiens.

Family and domain databases

InterPro

IPR002108. Actin-bd_cofilin/tropomyosin.
IPR017904. ADF/Cofilin/Destrin.
[Graphical view]

Pfam

PF00241. Cofilin_ADF. 1 hit.
[Graphical view]

PRINTS

PR00006. COFILIN.

SMART

SM00102. ADF. 1 hit.
[Graphical view]

PROSITE

PS51263. ADF_H. 1 hit.
[Graphical view]

ProtoNet

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Other Resources

NextBio

4476.

PMAP-CutDB

P23528.

SOURCE

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Entry information

Entry name

COF1_HUMAN

Accession

Primary (citable) accession number: P23528
Secondary accession number(s): B3KUQ1, Q53Y87, Q9UCA2

Entry history

Integrated into UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot:	November 1, 1991
Last sequence update:	January 23, 2007
Last modified:	November 24, 2009
This is version 117 of the entry and version 3 of the sequence. [Complete history]

Entry status

Reviewed (UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot)

Annotation project

HPI (Human Proteome Initiative)

Disclaimer

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