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Facts about Zinc transporter ZIP2.
May also transport other divalent cations. May be important in contact inhibition of normal epithelial cells and reduction of its expression may play a role in tumorigenesis.
Human | |
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Gene Name: | SLC39A2 |
Uniprot: | Q9NP94 |
Entrez: | 29986 |
Belongs to: |
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ZIP transporter (TC 2.A.5) family |
Eti-1; MGC119190; solute carrier family 39 (zinc transporter), member 2; Solute carrier family 39 member 2; zinc transporter ZIP2; ZIP-2; ZIP2hZIP2; Zrt- and Irt-like protein 2,6A1
Mass (kDA):
32.742 kDA
Human | |
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Location: | 14q11.2 |
Sequence: | 14; NC_000014.9 (20999293..21001871) |
Expressed only in prostate and uterine epithelial cells.
Cell membrane; Multi-pass membrane protein.
PMID: 7751801 by Yamaguchi S.; Subtraction cloning of growth arrest inducible genes in normal human epithelial cells.
PMID: 10681536 by Gaither L.A., et al. Functional expression of the human hZIP2 zinc transporter.