PMP2

Peripheral myelin protein 2
PDB rendering based on 1pmp.
Available structures PDB Ortholog search: PDBe, RCSB List of PDB id codes 2WUT​, 3NR3​, 4A1H​, 4A1Y​, 4A8Z​, 4BVM​, 4D6A​, 4D6B​
Identifiers
Symbols	PMP2 ; FABP8; M-FABP; MP2; P2
External IDs	OMIM: 170715 MGI: 102667 HomoloGene: 20589 IUPHAR: 2544 GeneCards: PMP2 Gene
Gene ontology Molecular function • transporter activity • fatty acid binding • protein binding • cholesterol binding Cellular component • cytoplasm • extracellular exosome Biological process • transport • membrane organization Sources: Amigo / QuickGO
RNA expression pattern
More reference expression data
Orthologs
Species	Human	Mouse
Entrez	5375	18857
Ensembl	ENSG00000147588	ENSMUSG00000052468
UniProt	P02689	P24526
RefSeq (mRNA)	NM_002677	NM_001030305
RefSeq (protein)	NP_002668	NP_001025476
Location (UCSC)	Chr 8: 81.44 – 81.45 Mb	Chr 3: 10.18 – 10.18 Mb
PubMed search

Myelin P2 protein is a protein that in humans is encoded by the PMP2 gene.^[1][2][3]

References

1. Hayasaka K, Nanao K, Tahara M, Sato W, Takada G, Miura M, Uyemura K (Jan 1992). "Isolation and sequence determination of cDNA encoding P2 protein of human peripheral myelin". Biochem Biophys Res Commun 181 (1): 204–7. doi:10.1016/S0006-291X(05)81402-0. PMID 1720307.
2. Hayasaka K, Himoro M, Takada G, Takahashi E, Minoshima S, Shimizu N (Feb 1994). "Structure and localization of the gene encoding human peripheral myelin protein 2 (PMP2)". Genomics 18 (2): 244–8. doi:10.1006/geno.1993.1462. PMID 8288226.
3. "Entrez Gene: PMP2 peripheral myelin protein 2".

Further reading

• Narayanan V, Barbosa E, Reed R, Tennekoon G (1988). "Characterization of a cloned cDNA encoding rabbit myelin P2 protein". J. Biol. Chem. 263 (17): 8332–7. PMID 2453513.
• Jones TA, Bergfors T, Sedzik J, Unge T (1988). "The three-dimensional structure of P2 myelin protein". EMBO J. 7 (6): 1597–604. PMC 457142. PMID 2458918.
• Ishaque A, Hofmann T, Eylar EH (1982). "The complete amino acid sequence of the rabbit P2 protein". J. Biol. Chem. 257 (2): 592–5. PMID 6172423.
• Suzuki M, Kitamura K, Sakamoto Y, Uyemura K (1983). "The complete amino acid sequence of human P2 protein". J. Neurochem. 39 (6): 1759–62. doi:10.1111/j.1471-4159.1982.tb08017.x. PMID 6183401.
• Trapp BD, Dubois-Dalcq M, Quarles RH (1984). "Ultrastructural localization of P2 protein in actively myelinating rat Schwann cells". J. Neurochem. 43 (4): 944–8. doi:10.1111/j.1471-4159.1984.tb12828.x. PMID 6206203.
• Narayanan V, Ripepi B, Jabs EW, et al. (1994). "Partial structure and mapping of the human myelin P2 protein gene". J. Neurochem. 63 (6): 2010–3. doi:10.1046/j.1471-4159.1994.63062010.x. PMID 7525873.
• Besançon R, Latour P, Lara K, et al. (2001). "Exonic SNPs at positions 220 (A/G) and 445 (C/T) of the peripheral myelin protein 2 (PMP2)". Hum. Mutat. 17 (3): 237. doi:10.1002/humu.11. PMID 11241848.
• Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH, et al. (2003). "Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99 (26): 16899–903. doi:10.1073/pnas.242603899. PMC 139241. PMID 12477932.
• Fortna A, Kim Y, MacLaren E, et al. (2006). "Lineage-Specific Gene Duplication and Loss in Human and Great Ape Evolution". PLoS Biol. 2 (7): E207. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0020207. PMC 449870. PMID 15252450.
• Gerhard DS, Wagner L, Feingold EA, et al. (2004). "The Status, Quality, and Expansion of the NIH Full-Length cDNA Project: The Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC)". Genome Res. 14 (10B): 2121–7. doi:10.1101/gr.2596504. PMC 528928. PMID 15489334.