NELL2

Protein kinase C-binding protein NELL2 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the NELL2 gene.

NELL2
Identifiers
Aliases	NELL2, NRP2, neural EGFL like 2
External IDs	OMIM: 602320 MGI: 1858510 HomoloGene: 4488 GeneCards: NELL2
Gene location (Human) Chr. Chromosome 12 (human) Band 12q12 Start 44,508,275 bp End 44,921,848 bp
Gene location (Mouse) Chr. Chromosome 15 (mouse) Band 15|15 E3 Start 94,973,111 bp End 95,426,440 bp
RNA expression pattern Bgee Human Mouse (ortholog) Top expressed in middle temporal gyrus Brodmann area 23 retinal pigment epithelium orbitofrontal cortex frontal pole superior frontal gyrus endothelial cell Brodmann area 10 germinal epithelium postcentral gyrus Top expressed in superior frontal gyrus medial dorsal nucleus piriform cortex entorhinal cortex Region I of hippocampus proper medial geniculate nucleus hippocampus proper olfactory tubercle prefrontal cortex spermatocyte More reference expression data BioGPS More reference expression data
Gene ontology Molecular function calcium ion binding protein binding protein kinase C binding heparin binding Cellular component extracellular region cytoplasm Biological process neuron cellular homeostasis Sources:Amigo / QuickGO
Orthologs Species Human Mouse Entrez 4753 54003 Ensembl ENSG00000184613 ENSMUSG00000022454 UniProt Q99435 Q61220 RefSeq (mRNA) NM_001145107 NM_001145108 NM_001145109 NM_001145110 NM_006159 NM_001289653 NM_016743 NM_001356950 NM_001356951 RefSeq (protein) NP_001138579 NP_001138580 NP_001138581 NP_001138582 NP_006150 NP_001276582 NP_001343879 NP_001343880 Location (UCSC) Chr 12: 44.51 – 44.92 Mb Chr 15: 94.97 – 95.43 Mb PubMed search
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This gene encodes a cytoplasmic protein that contains epidermal growth factor (EGF) -like repeats. The encoded heterotrimeric protein may be involved in cell growth regulation and differentiation. A similar protein in rodents is involved in craniosynostosis. An alternative splice variant has been described but its full length sequence has not been determined.

Further reading

• Watanabe TK, Katagiri T, Suzuki M, et al. (1997). "Cloning and characterization of two novel human cDNAs (NELL1 and NELL2) encoding proteins with six EGF-like repeats". Genomics. 38 (3): 273–6. doi:10.1006/geno.1996.0628. PMID 8975702.
• Beckmann G, Hanke J, Bork P, Reich JG (1998). "Merging extracellular domains: fold prediction for laminin G-like and amino-terminal thrombospondin-like modules based on homology to pentraxins". J. Mol. Biol. 275 (5): 725–30. doi:10.1006/jmbi.1997.1510. PMID 9480764.
• Luce MJ, Burrows PD (1999). "The neuronal EGF-related genes NELL1 and NELL2 are expressed in hemopoietic cells and developmentally regulated in the B lineage". Gene. 231 (1–2): 121–6. doi:10.1016/S0378-1119(99)00093-1. PMID 10231576.
• Kuroda S, Oyasu M, Kawakami M, et al. (1999). "Biochemical characterization and expression analysis of neural thrombospondin-1-like proteins NELL1 and NELL2". Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 265 (1): 79–86. doi:10.1006/bbrc.1999.1638. PMID 10548494.
• 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. Bibcode:2002PNAS...9916899M. doi:10.1073/pnas.242603899. PMC 139241. PMID 12477932.
• Ota T, Suzuki Y, Nishikawa T, et al. (2004). "Complete sequencing and characterization of 21,243 full-length human cDNAs". Nat. Genet. 36 (1): 40–5. doi:10.1038/ng1285. PMID 14702039.
• Zhang Z, Henzel WJ (2005). "Signal peptide prediction based on analysis of experimentally verified cleavage sites". Protein Sci. 13 (10): 2819–24. doi:10.1110/ps.04682504. PMC 2286551. PMID 15340161.
• 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.
• Lim J, Hao T, Shaw C, et al. (2006). "A protein-protein interaction network for human inherited ataxias and disorders of Purkinje cell degeneration". Cell. 125 (4): 801–14. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2006.03.032. PMID 16713569. S2CID 13709685.