Mucin 2

MUC2
Identifiers
Aliases MUC2, MLP, MUC-2, SMUC, mucin 2, oligomeric mucus/gel-forming
External IDs MGI: 1339364 HomoloGene: 136755 GeneCards: MUC2
Genetically Related Diseases
interstitial lung disease[1]
Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez

4583

17831

Ensembl

ENSG00000278466

ENSMUSG00000025515

UniProt

Q02817

Q80Z19

RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_002457

NM_023566

RefSeq (protein)

NP_002448.3

n/a

Location (UCSC) n/a n/a
PubMed search [2] [3]
Wikidata
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Mucin 2, oligomeric mucus gel-forming, also known as MUC2, is a protein that in humans is encoded by the MUC2 gene.[4][5]

Function

This gene encodes a member of the mucin protein family. The protein encoded by this gene, also called mucin 2, is secreted onto mucosal surfaces.[4]

Mucin 2 is particularly prominent in the gut where it is secreted from goblet cells in the epithelial lining into the lumen of the large intestine. There, mucin 2, along with small amounts of related-mucin proteins, polymerizes into a gel of which 80% by weight is oligosaccharide side-chains that are added as post-translational modifications to the mucin proteins. This gel provides an insoluble mucous barrier that serves to protect the intestinal epithelium.

Genetics

The mucin 2 protein features a central domain containing tandem repeats rich in threonine and proline that varies between 50 and 115 copies in different individuals. Alternatively spliced transcript variants of this gene have been described, but their full-length nature is not known.[6]

References

  1. "Diseases that are genetically associated with MUC2 view/edit references on wikidata".
  2. "Human PubMed Reference:".
  3. "Mouse PubMed Reference:".
  4. 1 2 Allen A, Hutton DA, Pearson JP (July 1998). "The MUC2 gene product: a human intestinal mucin". Int. J. Biochem. Cell Biol. 30 (7): 797–801. doi:10.1016/S1357-2725(98)00028-4. PMID 9722984.
  5. Rousseau K, Byrne C, Kim YS, Gum JR, Swallow DM, Toribara NW (May 2004). "The complete genomic organization of the human MUC6 and MUC2 mucin genes". Genomics. 83 (5): 936–9. doi:10.1016/j.ygeno.2003.11.003. PMID 15081123.
  6. "Entrez Gene: MUC2 mucin 2, oligomeric mucus/gel-forming".


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