Description: Homo sapiens microtubule-associated protein 2 (MAP2), transcript variant 5, mRNA. RefSeq Summary (NM_031845): This gene encodes a protein that belongs to the microtubule-associated protein family. The proteins of this family are thought to be involved in microtubule assembly, which is an essential step in neurogenesis. The products of similar genes in rat and mouse are neuron-specific cytoskeletal proteins that are enriched in dentrites, implicating a role in determining and stabilizing dentritic shape during neuron development. A number of alternatively spliced variants encoding distinct isoforms have been described. [provided by RefSeq, Jan 2010]. Transcript (Including UTRs) Position: hg19 chr2:210,476,049-210,598,834 Size: 122,786 Total Exon Count: 12 Strand: + Coding Region Position: hg19 chr2:210,517,895-210,595,121 Size: 77,227 Coding Exon Count: 10
Insulin James B Meigs et al. BMC medical genetics 2007, Genome-wide association with diabetes-related traits in the Framingham Heart Study., BMC medical genetics.
[PubMed 17903298]
Framingham 100K SNP data is a resource for association tests of known and novel genes with diabetes and related traits posted at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/gap/cgi-bin/study.cgi?id=phs000007 webcite. Framingham 100K data replicate the TCF7L2 association with diabetes.
The RNAfold program from the Vienna RNA Package is used to perform the secondary structure predictions and folding calculations. The estimated folding energy is in kcal/mol. The more negative the energy, the more secondary structure the RNA is likely to have.
Protein Domain and Structure Information
Pfam Domains: PF00418 - Tau and MAP protein, tubulin-binding repeat PF10522 - RII binding domain
ModBase Predicted Comparative 3D Structure on P11137-2
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Orthologous Genes in Other Species
Orthologies between human, mouse, and rat are computed by taking the best BLASTP hit, and filtering out non-syntenic hits. For more distant species reciprocal-best BLASTP hits are used. Note that the absence of an ortholog in the table below may reflect incomplete annotations in the other species rather than a true absence of the orthologous gene.