APEX2 (apurinic/apyrimidinic endodeoxyribonuclease 2)
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Gene
Gene information from NCBI Gene database.
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| Entrez ID | 27301 |
| Gene name | Apurinic/apyrimidinic endodeoxyribonuclease 2 |
| Gene symbol | APEX2 |
| Synonyms (NCBI Gene) |
APE2APEXL2XTH2ZGRF2
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| Chromosome | X |
| Chromosome location | Xp11.21 |
| Summary | Apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) sites occur frequently in DNA molecules by spontaneous hydrolysis, by DNA damaging agents or by DNA glycosylases that remove specific abnormal bases. AP sites are pre-mutagenic lesions that can prevent normal DNA replication so |
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miRNA
miRNA information provided by mirtarbase database.
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Gene ontology (GO)
Gene Ontology (GO) annotations describing the biological processes, molecular functions, and cellular components associated with a gene.
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Other IDs
Other IDs provides unique identifiers for this gene in OMIM, HGNC, and Ensembl databases.
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Protein
Protein information from UniProt database.
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UniProt ID
Unique identifier for the protein in the UniProt database. Click to view detailed protein information.
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| Protein name | DNA-(apurinic or apyrimidinic site) endonuclease 2 (EC 3.1.11.2) (AP endonuclease XTH2) (APEX nuclease 2) (APEX nuclease-like 2) (Apurinic-apyrimidinic endonuclease 2) (AP endonuclease 2) | |||||||||||||||
| Protein function | Functions as a weak apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) endodeoxyribonuclease in the DNA base excision repair (BER) pathway of DNA lesions induced by oxidative and alkylating agents (PubMed:16687656). Initiates repair of AP sites in DNA by catalyzing hyd | |||||||||||||||
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| Tissue specificity | TISSUE SPECIFICITY: Highly expressed in brain and kidney. Weakly expressed in the fetal brain. {ECO:0000269|PubMed:11376153}. | |||||||||||||||
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| Sequence length | 518 | |||||||||||||||
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Related Genes
Genes most often co-reported with APEX2 across shared curated disease and pathway associations.
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Diseases Linked via Similar Genes
Diseases curated for genes most similar to APEX2 (see Related Genes above), that are NOT already directly curated for APEX2 itself -- a lead worth checking, not a confirmed association.
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