EPN2

Epsin 2
Identifiers
Symbols EPN2 ; EHB21
External IDs OMIM: 607263 MGI: 1333766 HomoloGene: 40710 GeneCards: EPN2 Gene
RNA expression pattern
More reference expression data
Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez 22905 13855
Ensembl ENSG00000072134 ENSMUSG00000001036
UniProt O95208 Q8CHU3
RefSeq (mRNA) NM_001102664 NM_001252188
RefSeq (protein) NP_001096134 NP_001239117
Location (UCSC) Chr 17:
19.22 – 19.34 Mb
Chr 11:
61.52 – 61.58 Mb
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Epsin-2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the EPN2 gene.[1][2]

This gene encodes a protein which interacts with clathrin and adaptor-related protein complex 2, alpha 1 subunit. The protein is found in a brain-derived clathrin-coated vesicle fraction and localizes to the peri-Golgi region and the cell periphery. The protein is thought to be involved in clathrin-mediated endocytosis. Alternate splicing of this gene results in two transcript variants encoding different isoforms.[2]

References

  1. Rosenthal JA, Chen H, Slepnev VI, Pellegrini L, Salcini AE, Di Fiore PP, De Camilli P (Dec 1999). "The epsins define a family of proteins that interact with components of the clathrin coat and contain a new protein module". J Biol Chem 274 (48): 33959–65. doi:10.1074/jbc.274.48.33959. PMID 10567358.
  2. 1 2 "Entrez Gene: EPN2 epsin 2".

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