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Facts about Dynamin-2.
Plays an important role in vesicular trafficking processes, in particular endocytosis. Involved in cytokinesis (PubMed:12498685).
Human | |
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Gene Name: | DNM2 |
Uniprot: | P50570 |
Entrez: | 1785 |
Belongs to: |
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TRAFAC class dynamin-like GTPase superfamily |
CMTDI1CMT2M; CMTDIBdynamin II; DI-CMTB; DYN2EC 3.6.5.5; dynamin 2; dynamin-2; DYNII
Mass (kDA):
98.064 kDA
Human | |
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Location: | 19p13.2 |
Sequence: | 19; NC_000019.10 (10718053..10831910) |
Ubiquitously expressed.
Cytoplasm. Cytoplasm, cytoskeleton. Cell junction. Membrane, clathrin-coated pit. Cell junction, synapse, postsynaptic density. Cell junction, synapse. Midbody. Cell projection, phagocytic cup. Cytoplasmic vesicle, phagosome membrane; Peripheral membrane protein. Colocalizes with CTTN at the basis of filopodia in hippocampus neuron growth zones (By similarity). Microtubule-associated. Also found in the postsynaptic density of neuronal cells. Co-localizes with PIK3C3 and RAB5A to the nascent phagosome (By similarity).
PMID: 7590285 by Diatloff-Zito C., et al. Isolation of an ubiquitously expressed cDNA encoding human dynamin II, a member of the large GTP-binding protein family.
PMID: 11583995 by Okamoto P.M., et al. Dynamin isoform-specific interaction with the shank/ProSAP scaffolding proteins of the postsynaptic density and actin cytoskeleton.