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MEPE

Matrix extracellular phosphoglycoprotein is a protein that in humans is encoded by the MEPE gene. A conserved RGD motif is found in this protein, and this is potentially involved in integrin recognition.

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MEPE
Identifiers
AliasesMEPE, OF45, matrix extracellular phosphoglycoprotein
External IDsOMIM: 605912; MGI: 2137384; HomoloGene: 10623; GeneCards: MEPE; OMA:MEPE - orthologs
Orthologs
SpeciesHumanMouse
Entrez
Ensembl
UniProt
RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_053172

RefSeq (protein)

NP_444402

Location (UCSC)Chr 4: 87.82 – 87.85 MbChr 5: 104.47 – 104.49 Mb
PubMed search34
Wikidata
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Osteoregulin
Identifiers
SymbolOsteoregulin
PfamPF07175
InterProIPR009837
Available protein structures:
PDB  IPR009837 PF07175 (ECOD; PDBsum)  
AlphaFold

Matrix extracellular phosphoglycoprotein (Osteoblast/osteocyte factor 45) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the MEPE gene.56 A conserved RGD motif is found in this protein, and this is potentially involved in integrin recognition.7


References

References

  1. GRCh38: Ensembl release 89: ENSG00000152595Ensembl, May 2017
  2. GRCm38: Ensembl release 89: ENSMUSG00000053863Ensembl, May 2017
  3. "Human PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
  4. "Mouse PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
  5. Rowe PS, de Zoysa PA, Dong R, Wang HR, White KE, Econs MJ, Oudet CL (1 July 2000). "MEPE, a new gene expressed in bone marrow and tumors causing osteomalacia". Genomics. 67 (1): 54–68. doi:10.1006/geno.2000.6235. PMID 10945470.
  6. "Entrez Gene: MEPE matrix, extracellular phosphoglycoprotein with ASARM motif (bone)".
  7. Petersen DN, Tkalcevic GT, Mansolf AL, Rivera-Gonzalez R, Brown TA (November 2000). "Identification of osteoblast/osteocyte factor 45 (OF45), a bone-specific cDNA encoding an RGD-containing protein that is highly expressed in osteoblasts and osteocytes". J. Biol. Chem. 275 (46): 36172–80. doi:10.1074/jbc.M003622200. PMID 10967096.
Further reading

Further reading

This article incorporates text from the public domain Pfam and InterPro: IPR009837