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Facts about Carbonic anhydrase 12.
Human | |
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Gene Name: | CA12 |
Uniprot: | O43570 |
Entrez: | 771 |
Belongs to: |
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alpha-carbonic anhydrase family |
CA12; Carbonate dehydratase XII; carbonic anhydrase 12; Carbonic Anhydrase XII; carbonic anhydrase XIICAXII; carbonic dehydratase; CA-XII; EC 4.2.1.1; FLJ20151; HsT18816; Tumor antigen HOM-RCC-3.1.3
Mass (kDA):
39.451 kDA
Human | |
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Location: | 15q22.2 |
Sequence: | 15; NC_000015.10 (63321378..63382110, complement) |
Highly expressed in colon, kidney, prostate, intestine and activated lymphocytes. Expressed at much higher levels in the renal cell cancers than in surrounding normal kidney tissue. Moderately expressed in pancreas, ovary and testis.
Membrane; Single-pass type I membrane protein. Cell membrane.
PMID: 9636197 by Tuereci O., et al. Human carbonic anhydrase XII: cDNA cloning, expression, and chromosomal localization of a carbonic anhydrase gene that is overexpressed in some renal cell cancers.
PMID: 9770531 by Ivanov S.V., et al. Down-regulation of transmembrane carbonic anhydrases in renal cell carcinoma cell lines by wild-type von Hippel-Lindau transgenes.