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Facts about Fermitin family homolog 2.
Required for the assembly of focal adhesions. Participates in the link between extracellular matrix adhesion sites and the actin cytoskeleton and in the orchestration of actin assembly and cell shape modulation.
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Gene Name: | FERMT2 |
Uniprot: | Q96AC1 |
Entrez: | 10979 |
Belongs to: |
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kindlin family |
fermitin family homolog 2 (Drosophila); fermitin family homolog 2; fermitin family member 2; FERMT2; KIND2; KIND2DKFZp686G11125; kindlin 2; Kindlin-2; MIG2; mig-2; MIG2FLJ34213; mitogen inducible gene 2 protein; Mitogen-inducible gene 2 protein; PH domain-containing family C member 1; pleckstrin homology domain containing, family C (with FERM domain) member 1; pleckstrin homology domain containing, family C member 1; Pleckstrin homology domain-containing family C member 1; PLEKHC1; PLEKHC1FLJ44462; UNC112; UNC112B
Mass (kDA):
77.861 kDA
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Location: | 14q22.1 |
Sequence: | 14; NC_000014.9 (52857271..52951097, complement) |
Ubiquitous. Found in numerous tumor tissues.
Cytoplasm. Cytoplasm, cell cortex. Cytoplasm, cytoskeleton. Cytoplasm, cytoskeleton, stress fiber. Cell junction, focal adhesion. Membrane; Peripheral membrane protein; Cytoplasmic side. Cell projection, lamellipodium membrane; Peripheral membrane protein; Cytoplasmic side. Nucleus. Cytoplasm, myofibril, sarcomere, I band. Cell surface. Colocalizes with actin stress fibers at cell-ECM focal adhesion sites. Colocalizes with ITGB3 at lamellipodia at the leading edge of spreading cells. Binds to membranes that contain phosphatidylinositides.
PMID: 8175911 by Wick M., et al. Identification of serum-inducible genes: different patterns of gene regulation during G0->S and G1->S progression.
PMID: 12697302 by Weinstein E.J., et al. URP1: a member of a novel family of PH and FERM domain-containing membrane-associated proteins is significantly over-expressed in lung and colon carcinomas.