CSPG4

Chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan 4
Identifiers
Symbols CSPG4; HMW-MAA; MCSP; MCSPG; MEL-CSPG; MSK16; NG2
External IDs OMIM601172 MGI2153093 HomoloGene20445 GeneCards: CSPG4 Gene
RNA expression pattern
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Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez 1464 121021
Ensembl ENSG00000173546 ENSMUSG00000032911
UniProt Q6UVK1 Q09J74
RefSeq (mRNA) NM_001897 NM_139001.2
RefSeq (protein) NP_001888 NP_620570.2
Location (UCSC) Chr 15:
75.97 – 76.01 Mb
Chr 9:
56.71 – 56.75 Mb
PubMed search [1] [2]

Chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan 4, also known as melanoma-associated chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan (MCSP) or neuron-glial antigen 2 (NG2), is a chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan that in humans is encoded by the CSPG4 gene.[1][2][3]

CSPG4 plays a role in stabilizing cell-substratum interactions during early events of melanoma cell spreading on endothelial basement membranes. It represents an integral membrane chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan expressed by human malignant melanoma cells.[3]

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References

  1. ^ Pluschke G, Vanek M, Evans A, Dittmar T, Schmid P, Itin P, Filardo EJ, Reisfeld RA (Oct 1996). "Molecular cloning of a human melanoma-associated chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan". Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 93 (18): 9710–5. doi:10.1073/pnas.93.18.9710. PMC 38494. PMID 8790396. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=38494. 
  2. ^ Luo W, Wang X, Kageshita T, Wakasugi S, Karpf AR, Ferrone S (May 2006). "Regulation of high molecular weight-melanoma associated antigen (HMW-MAA) gene expression by promoter DNA methylation in human melanoma cells". Oncogene 25 (20): 2873–84. doi:10.1038/sj.onc.1209319. PMID 16407841. 
  3. ^ a b "Entrez Gene: CSPG4 chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan 4". http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=gene&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=1464. 

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