DCHS2

Dachsous cadherin-related 2
Identifiers
Symbols	DCHS2 ; CDH27; CDHJ; CDHR7; PCDH23; PCDHJ
External IDs	OMIM: 612486 MGI: 2685263 HomoloGene: 130686 GeneCards: DCHS2 Gene
Gene ontology Molecular function • molecular_function • calcium ion binding Cellular component • cellular_component • plasma membrane • integral component of membrane Biological process • homophilic cell adhesion via plasma membrane adhesion molecules • biological_process Sources: Amigo / QuickGO
Orthologs
Species	Human	Mouse
Entrez	54798	229459
Ensembl	ENSG00000197410	n/a
UniProt	Q6V1P9	n/a
RefSeq (mRNA)	NM_001142552	n/a
RefSeq (protein)	NP_001136024	n/a
Location (UCSC)	Chr 4: 154.23 – 154.49 Mb	Chr 3: 83.04 – 83.16 Mb
PubMed search

Protein dachsous homolog 2, also known as protocadherin-23 (PCDH23) or cadherin-27 (CDH27), is a protein that in humans is encoded by the DCHS2 gene.^[1][2]

References

1. "Entrez Gene: dachsous 2 (Drosophila)".
2. Höng JC, Ivanov NV, Hodor P, Xia M, Wei N, Blevins R, Gerhold D, Borodovsky M, Liu Y (March 2004). "Identification of new human cadherin genes using a combination of protein motif search and gene finding methods". J. Mol. Biol. 337 (2): 307–17. doi:10.1016/j.jmb.2004.01.026. PMID 15003449.

Further reading

• Maruyama K, Sugano S (1994). "Oligo-capping: a simple method to replace the cap structure of eukaryotic mRNAs with oligoribonucleotides.". Gene 138 (1-2): 171–4. doi:10.1016/0378-1119(94)90802-8. PMID 8125298.
• Kimura K, Wakamatsu A, Suzuki Y; et al. (2006). "Diversification of transcriptional modulation: large-scale identification and characterization of putative alternative promoters of human genes.". Genome Res. 16 (1): 55–65. doi:10.1101/gr.4039406. PMC 1356129. PMID 16344560.
• Suzuki Y, Yoshitomo-Nakagawa K, Maruyama K; et al. (1997). "Construction and characterization of a full length-enriched and a 5'-end-enriched cDNA library.". Gene 200 (1-2): 149–56. doi:10.1016/S0378-1119(97)00411-3. PMID 9373149.