pfam09766

Fms-interacting protein; This entry carries part of the crucial 144 N-terminal residues of the FmiP protein, which is essential for the binding of the protein to the cytoplasmic domain of activated Fms-molecules in M-CSF induced haematopoietic differentiation of macrophages. The C-terminus contains a putative nuclear localisation sequence and a leucine zipper which suggest further, as yet unknown, nuclear functions. The level of FMIP expression might form a threshold that determines whether cells differentiate into macrophages or into granulocytes.