Metallothionein 2A

Metallothionein 2A
Metallothionein 2A

PDB rendering based on 1mhu.
Identifiers
Symbols MT2A; MT2
External IDs OMIM156360 MGI97172 HomoloGene48388 GeneCards: MT2A Gene
RNA expression pattern
PBB GE MT2A 212185 x at tn.png
More reference expression data
Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez 4502 17750
Ensembl ENSG00000125148 ENSMUSG00000031762
UniProt P02795 P02798
RefSeq (mRNA) NM_005953 NM_008630.2
RefSeq (protein) NP_005944 NP_032656.1
Location (UCSC) Chr 16:
56.64 – 56.64 Mb
Chr 8:
96.7 – 96.7 Mb
PubMed search [1] [2]

Metallothionein-2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the MT2A gene.[1][2]


Interactions

Metallothionein 2A has been shown to interact with Protein kinase D1.[3]

References

  1. ^ Karin M, Richards RI (Dec 1982). "Human metallothionein genes--primary structure of the metallothionein-II gene and a related processed gene". Nature 299 (5886): 797–802. doi:10.1038/299797a0. PMID 7133118. 
  2. ^ "Entrez Gene: MT2A metallothionein 2A". http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=gene&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=4502. 
  3. ^ Rao, Prema S; Jaggi Meena, Smith David J, Hemstreet George P, Balaji K C (Oct. 2003). "Metallothionein 2A interacts with the kinase domain of PKCmu in prostate cancer". Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. (United States) 310 (3): 1032–8. doi:10.1016/j.bbrc.2003.09.118. ISSN 0006-291X. PMID 14550308. 

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