PCDHA2

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Protocadherin alpha 2
PDB rendering based on 1wuz.
Available structures: 1wuz
Identifiers
Symbol(s) PCDHA2; PCDH-ALPHA2
External IDs OMIM: 606308 MGI2681880 HomoloGene56822
RNA expression pattern

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Orthologs
Human Mouse
Entrez 56146 353234
Ensembl ENSG00000204969 n/a
Uniprot Q9Y5H9 n/a
Refseq NM_031496 (mRNA)
NP_113684 (protein)
NM_198117 (mRNA)
NP_932785 (protein)
Location Chr 5: 140.15 - 140.16 Mb n/a
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Protocadherin alpha 2, also known as PCDHA2, is a human gene.[1]

This gene is a member of the protocadherin alpha gene cluster, one of three related gene clusters tandemly linked on chromosome five that demonstrate an unusual genomic organization similar to that of B-cell and T-cell receptor gene clusters. The alpha gene cluster is composed of 15 cadherin superfamily genes related to the mouse CNR genes and consists of 13 highly similar and 2 more distantly related coding sequences. The tandem array of 15 N-terminal exons, or variable exons, are followed by downstream C-terminal exons, or constant exons, which are shared by all genes in the cluster. The large, uninterrupted N-terminal exons each encode six cadherin ectodomains while the C-terminal exons encode the cytoplasmic domain. These neural cadherin-like cell adhesion proteins are integral plasma membrane proteins that most likely play a critical role in the establishment and function of specific cell-cell connections in the brain. Alternative splicing has been observed and additional variants have been suggested but their full-length nature has yet to be determined.[1]

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  • Wu Q, Maniatis T (1999). "A striking organization of a large family of human neural cadherin-like cell adhesion genes.". Cell 97 (6): 779-90. PMID 10380929. 
  • Sugino H, Hamada S, Yasuda R, et al. (2000). "Genomic organization of the family of CNR cadherin genes in mice and humans.". Genomics 63 (1): 75-87. doi:10.1006/geno.1999.6066. PMID 10662547. 
  • Wu Q, Maniatis T (2000). "Large exons encoding multiple ectodomains are a characteristic feature of protocadherin genes.". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 97 (7): 3124-9. doi:10.1073/pnas.060027397. PMID 10716726. 
  • Wu Q, Zhang T, Cheng JF, et al. (2001). "Comparative DNA sequence analysis of mouse and human protocadherin gene clusters.". Genome Res. 11 (3): 389-404. doi:10.1101/gr.167301. PMID 11230163. 
  • 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. PMID 12477932. 
  • Gevaert K, Goethals M, Martens L, et al. (2004). "Exploring proteomes and analyzing protein processing by mass spectrometric identification of sorted N-terminal peptides.". Nat. Biotechnol. 21 (5): 566-9. doi:10.1038/nbt810. PMID 12665801. 
  • Schmutz J, Martin J, Terry A, et al. (2004). "The DNA sequence and comparative analysis of human chromosome 5.". Nature 431 (7006): 268-74. doi:10.1038/nature02919. PMID 15372022. 
  • 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. PMID 15489334.