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LRRN2

Leucine-rich repeat neuronal protein 2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the LRRN2 gene.

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LRRN2
Identifiers
AliasesLRRN2, FIGLER7, GAC1, LRANK1, LRRN5, leucine rich repeat neuronal 2
External IDsOMIM: 605492; MGI: 106037; HomoloGene: 21274; GeneCards: LRRN2; OMA:LRRN2 - orthologs
Orthologs
SpeciesHumanMouse
Entrez
Ensembl
UniProt
RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_006338
NM_201630

NM_010732

RefSeq (protein)

NP_006329
NP_963924

NP_034862

Location (UCSC)Chr 1: 204.62 – 204.69 MbChr 1: 132.81 – 132.87 Mb
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Leucine-rich repeat neuronal protein 2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the LRRN2 gene.56

The protein encoded by this gene belongs to the leucine-rich repeat superfamily. This gene was found to be amplified and overexpressed in malignant gliomas. The encoded protein has homology with other proteins that function as cell-adhesion molecules or as signal transduction receptors and is a candidate for the target gene in the 1q32.1 amplicon in malignant gliomas. Two alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding the same protein have been described for this gene.6

References

References

  1. GRCh38: Ensembl release 89: ENSG00000170382Ensembl, May 2017
  2. GRCm38: Ensembl release 89: ENSMUSG00000026443Ensembl, 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. Almeida A, Zhu XX, Vogt N, Tyagi R, Muleris M, Dutrillaux AM, Dutrillaux B, Ross D, Malfoy B, Hanash S (Aug 1998). "GAC1, a new member of the leucine-rich repeat superfamily on chromosome band 1q32.1, is amplified and overexpressed in malignant gliomas". Oncogene. 16 (23): 2997–3002. doi:10.1038/sj.onc.1201828. PMID 9662332.
  6. "Entrez Gene: LRRN2 leucine rich repeat neuronal 2".
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