Eosinophil-derived neurotoxin

RNASE2
Available structures
PDBOrtholog search: PDBe RCSB
Identifiers
Aliases RNASE2, EDN, RAF3, RNS2, ribonuclease A family member 2
External IDs MGI: 1858598 HomoloGene: 121614 GeneCards: RNASE2
RNA expression pattern
More reference expression data
Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez

6036

54159

Ensembl

ENSG00000169385

ENSMUSG00000059606

UniProt

P10153

O35292

RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_002934

NM_019398

RefSeq (protein)

NP_002925.1

NP_062271.2

Location (UCSC) Chr 14: 20.96 – 20.96 Mb Chr 14: 51.16 – 51.16 Mb
PubMed search [1] [2]
Wikidata
View/Edit HumanView/Edit Mouse

Eosinophil-derived neurotoxin is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the RNASE2 gene.[3][4][5]

The protein encoded by this gene is found in eosinophil granulocytes. It is closely related to the eosinophil cationic protein from which it diverged ~50 million years ago after the split between the old world and the new world monkeys.[6] It is relatively neutral and has cytotoxic properties. It is capable of reducing the activity of single strand RNA viruses in culture through its enzymatic activity. It also serves as an attractant to immune cells.

See also

References

  1. "Human PubMed Reference:".
  2. "Mouse PubMed Reference:".
  3. Mastrianni DM, Eddy RL, Rosenberg HF, Corrette SE, Shows TB, Tenen DG, Ackerman SJ (Jun 1992). "Localization of the human eosinophil Charcot-Leyden crystal protein (lysophospholipase) gene (CLC) to chromosome 19 and the human ribonuclease 2 (eosinophil-derived neurotoxin) and ribonuclease 3 (eosinophil cationic protein) genes (RNS2 and RNS3) to chromosome 14". Genomics. 13 (1): 240–2. doi:10.1016/0888-7543(92)90237-M. PMID 1577491.
  4. Rosenberg HF, Tenen DG, Ackerman SJ (Jul 1989). "Molecular cloning of the human eosinophil-derived neurotoxin: a member of the ribonuclease gene family". Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 86 (12): 4460–4. doi:10.1073/pnas.86.12.4460. PMC 287289Freely accessible. PMID 2734298.
  5. "Entrez Gene: RNASE2 ribonuclease, RNase A family, 2 (liver, eosinophil-derived neurotoxin)".
  6. Rosenberg, Helene F. (2008-05-01). "RNase A ribonucleases and host defense: an evolving story". Journal of Leukocyte Biology. 83 (5): 1079–1087. doi:10.1189/jlb.1107725. ISSN 1938-3673. PMC 2692241Freely accessible. PMID 18211964. Retrieved 2013-12-19.

Further reading

External links


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 6/6/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.