EML4

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Echinoderm microtubule associated protein like 4
Identifiers
SymbolsEML4; C2orf2; ELP120; EMAP-4; EMAPL4; ROPP120
External IDsOMIM: 607442 MGI: 1926048 HomoloGene: 56841 ChEMBL: 1075114 GeneCards: EML4 Gene
RNA expression pattern
More reference expression data
Orthologs
SpeciesHumanMouse
Entrez2743678798
EnsemblENSG00000143924ENSMUSG00000032624
UniProtQ9HC35Q3UMY5
RefSeq (mRNA)NM_001145076NM_001114361
RefSeq (protein)NP_001138548NP_001107833
Location (UCSC)Chr 2:
42.4 – 42.56 Mb
Chr 17:
83.35 – 83.48 Mb
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Echinoderm microtubule-associated protein-like 4 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the EML4 gene.[1]

This protein is involved in cancers when spliced with the anaplastic lymphoma kinase.[2]

References

  1. "Entrez Gene: EML4 echinoderm microtubule associated protein like 4". 
  2. Choi YL, Takeuchi K, Soda M, Inamura K, Togashi Y, Hatano S, Enomoto M, Hamada T, Haruta H, Watanabe H, Kurashina K, Hatanaka H, Ueno T, Takada S, Yamashita Y, Sugiyama Y, Ishikawa Y, Mano H (July 2008). "Identification of novel isoforms of the EML4-ALK transforming gene in non-small cell lung cancer". Cancer Res. 68 (13): 4971–6. doi:10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-07-6158. PMID 18593892. 

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