PYGO2

Pygopus homolog 2 (Drosophila)
Available structures PDB Ortholog search: PDBe, RCSB List of PDB id codes 2XB1
Identifiers
Symbols	PYGO2; 1190004M21Rik
External IDs	OMIM: 606903 MGI: 1916161 HomoloGene: 44519 GeneCards: PYGO2 Gene
Gene Ontology Molecular function • zinc ion binding • histone binding Cellular component • nucleus Biological process • in utero embryonic development • kidney development • lens development in camera-type eye • brain development • post-embryonic development • mammary gland development • regulation of mammary gland epithelial cell proliferation • developmental growth • regulation of histone H3-K4 methylation • palate development • canonical Wnt receptor signaling pathway Sources: Amigo / QuickGO
Orthologs
Species	Human	Mouse
Entrez	90780	68911
Ensembl	ENSG00000163348	ENSMUSG00000047824
UniProt	Q9BRQ0	Q3V113
RefSeq (mRNA)	NM_138300	NM_026869
RefSeq (protein)	NP_612157	NP_081145
Location (UCSC)	Chr 1: 154.93 – 154.94 Mb	Chr 3: 89.43 – 89.44 Mb
PubMed search	[1]	[2]

Pygopus homolog 2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the PYGO2 gene.

Further reading

• Kramps T, Peter O, Brunner E, et al. (2002). "Wnt/wingless signaling requires BCL9/legless-mediated recruitment of pygopus to the nuclear beta-catenin-TCF complex.". Cell 109 (1): 47–60. doi:10.1016/S0092-8674(02)00679-7. PMID 11955446. 
• 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. 
• Townsley FM, Thompson B, Bienz M (2004). "Pygopus residues required for its binding to Legless are critical for transcription and development". J. Biol. Chem. 279 (7): 5177–83. doi:10.1074/jbc.M309722200. PMID 14612447. 
• 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. 
• Brandenberger R, Wei H, Zhang S, et al. (2005). "Transcriptome characterization elucidates signaling networks that control human ES cell growth and differentiation". Nat. Biotechnol. 22 (6): 707–16. doi:10.1038/nbt971. PMID 15146197. 
• 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. 
• Wan D, Gong Y, Qin W, et al. (2004). "Large-scale cDNA transfection screening for genes related to cancer development and progression". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 101 (44): 15724–9. doi:10.1073/pnas.0404089101. PMC 524842. PMID 15498874. 
• Popadiuk CM, Xiong J, Wells MG, et al. (2006). "Antisense suppression of pygopus2 results in growth arrest of epithelial ovarian cancer". Clin. Cancer Res. 12 (7 Pt 1): 2216–23. doi:10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-05-2433. PMID 16609037. 
• Beausoleil SA, Villén J, Gerber SA, et al. (2006). "A probability-based approach for high-throughput protein phosphorylation analysis and site localization". Nat. Biotechnol. 24 (10): 1285–92. doi:10.1038/nbt1240. PMID 16964243. 
• Hoffmans R, Basler K (2007). "BCL9-2 binds Arm/beta-catenin in a Tyr142-independent manner and requires Pygopus for its function in Wg/Wnt signaling". Mech. Dev. 124 (1): 59–67. doi:10.1016/j.mod.2006.09.006. PMID 17113272. 
• Andrews PG, Lake BB, Popadiuk C, Kao KR (2007). "Requirement of Pygopus 2 in breast cancer". Int. J. Oncol. 30 (2): 357–63. PMID 17203217.