ANGPT2

Angiopoietin-2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ANGPT2 gene.[5]

ANGPT2
Available structures
PDBOrtholog search: PDBe RCSB
Identifiers
AliasesANGPT2, AGPT2, ANG2, angiopoietin 2
External IDsOMIM: 601922 MGI: 1202890 HomoloGene: 22401 GeneCards: ANGPT2
Gene location (Human)
Chr.Chromosome 8 (human)[1]
Band8p23.1Start6,499,651 bp[1]
End6,563,409 bp[1]
RNA expression pattern


More reference expression data
Orthologs
SpeciesHumanMouse
Entrez

285

11601

Ensembl

ENSG00000091879

ENSMUSG00000031465

UniProt

O15123

O35608

RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_001147
NM_001118887
NM_001118888

NM_007426

RefSeq (protein)

NP_001112359
NP_001112360
NP_001138

NP_031452

Location (UCSC)Chr 8: 6.5 – 6.56 MbChr 8: 18.69 – 18.74 Mb
PubMed search[3][4]
Wikidata
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Naturally occurring antagonist for both ANGPT1 and TIE2; expressed only at the sites of vascular remodeling; similar to angiopoietin-1[6]

Function

Interactions

ANGPT2 has been shown to interact with TEK tyrosine kinase.[7][8][9]

See also

References

  1. GRCh38: Ensembl release 89: ENSG00000091879 - Ensembl, May 2017
  2. GRCm38: Ensembl release 89: ENSMUSG00000031465 - Ensembl, May 2017
  3. "Human PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
  4. "Mouse PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
  5. Cheung AH, Stewart RJ, Marsden PA (March 1998). "Endothelial Tie2/Tek ligands angiopoietin-1 (ANGPT1) and angiopoietin-2 (ANGPT2): regional localization of the human genes to 8q22.3-q23 and 8p23". Genomics. 48 (3): 389–91. doi:10.1006/geno.1997.5207. PMID 9545648.
  6. "Entrez Gene: ANGPT2 angiopoietin 2".
  7. Fiedler U, Krissl T, Koidl S, Weiss C, Koblizek T, Deutsch U, Martiny-Baron G, Marmé D, Augustin HG (January 2003). "Angiopoietin-1 and angiopoietin-2 share the same binding domains in the Tie-2 receptor involving the first Ig-like loop and the epidermal growth factor-like repeats". The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 278 (3): 1721–7. doi:10.1074/jbc.M208550200. PMID 12427764.
  8. Sato A, Iwama A, Takakura N, Nishio H, Yancopoulos GD, Suda T (August 1998). "Characterization of TEK receptor tyrosine kinase and its ligands, Angiopoietins, in human hematopoietic progenitor cells". International Immunology. 10 (8): 1217–27. doi:10.1093/intimm/10.8.1217. PMID 9723709.
  9. Maisonpierre PC, Suri C, Jones PF, Bartunkova S, Wiegand SJ, Radziejewski C, Compton D, McClain J, Aldrich TH, Papadopoulos N, Daly TJ, Davis S, Sato TN, Yancopoulos GD (July 1997). "Angiopoietin-2, a natural antagonist for Tie2 that disrupts in vivo angiogenesis". Science. 277 (5322): 55–60. doi:10.1126/science.277.5322.55. PMID 9204896.

Further reading

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