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Facts about Slit homolog 2 protein.
SLIT1 and SLIT2 seem to be essential for midline guidance in the forebrain by acting as gruesome signal preventing inappropriate midline crossing by axons projecting from the olfactory bulb. In spinal chord development may play a role in guiding commissural axons when they reached the floor plate by modulating the response to netrin.
Human | |
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Gene Name: | SLIT2 |
Uniprot: | O94813 |
Entrez: | 9353 |
Belongs to: |
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No superfamily |
FLJ14420; SLIL3; slit (Drosophila) homolog 2; slit homolog 2 (Drosophila); slit homolog 2 protein; Slit2; Slit-2SLIL3
Mass (kDA):
169.87 kDA
Human | |
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Location: | 4p15.31 |
Sequence: | 4; NC_000004.12 (20251905..20620561) |
Fetal lung and kidney, and adult spinal cord. Weak expression in adult adrenal gland, thyroid, trachea and other tissues examined.
Secreted. The C-terminal cleavage protein is more diffusible than the larger N-terminal protein that is more tightly cell associated.
PMID: 9813312 by Itoh A., et al. Cloning and expressions of three mammalian homologues of Drosophila slit suggest possible roles for Slit in the formation and maintenance of the nervous system.
PMID: 10349621 by Holmes G.P., et al. Distinct but overlapping expression patterns of two vertebrate slit homologs implies functional roles in CNS development and organogenesis.