PON2

PON2
Identifiers
Aliases PON2
External IDs MGI: 106687 HomoloGene: 385 GeneCards: PON2
RNA expression pattern


More reference expression data
Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez

5445

330260

Ensembl

ENSG00000105854

ENSMUSG00000032667

UniProt

Q15165

Q62086

RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_000305
NM_001018161

NM_183308

RefSeq (protein)

NP_000296.2

NP_899131.1

Location (UCSC) Chr 7: 95.4 – 95.44 Mb Chr 6: 5.26 – 5.3 Mb
PubMed search [1] [2]
Wikidata
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Serum paraoxonase/arylesterase 2 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the PON2 gene.[3][4][5]

This gene encodes a member of the paraoxonase gene family, which includes three known members located adjacent to each other on the long arm of chromosome 7. The encoded protein is ubiquitously expressed in human tissues, membrane-bound, and may act as a cellular antioxidant, protecting cells from oxidative stress. Hydrolytic activity against acylhomoserine lactones, important bacterial quorum-sensing mediators, suggests the encoded protein may also play a role in defense responses to pathogenic bacteria. Mutations in this gene may be associated with vascular disease and a number of quantitative phenotypes related to diabetes. Alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been described.[5]

References

  1. "Human PubMed Reference:".
  2. "Mouse PubMed Reference:".
  3. Primo-Parmo SL, Sorenson RC, Teiber J, La Du BN (Sep 1996). "The human serum paraoxonase/arylesterase gene (PON1) is one member of a multigene family". Genomics. 33 (3): 498–507. doi:10.1006/geno.1996.0225. PMID 8661009.
  4. Mochizuki H, Scherer SW, Xi T, Nickle DC, Majer M, Huizenga JJ, Tsui LC, Prochazka M (Aug 1998). "Human PON2 gene at 7q21.3: cloning, multiple mRNA forms, and missense polymorphisms in the coding sequence". Gene. 213 (1–2): 149–57. doi:10.1016/S0378-1119(98)00193-0. PMID 9714608.
  5. 1 2 "Entrez Gene: PON2 paraoxonase 2".

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