GPHA2 (glycoprotein hormone subunit alpha 2)
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Gene
Gene information from NCBI Gene database.
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| Entrez ID | 170589 |
| Gene name | Glycoprotein hormone subunit alpha 2 |
| Gene symbol | GPHA2 |
| Synonyms (NCBI Gene) |
A2GPA2ZSIG51
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| Chromosome | 11 |
| Chromosome location | 11q13.1 |
| Summary | GPHA2 is a cystine knot-forming polypeptide and a subunit of the dimeric glycoprotein hormone family (Hsu et al., 2002 [PubMed 12089349]).[supplied by OMIM, Mar 2008] |
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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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Q96T91 | ||||||||||
| Protein name | Glycoprotein hormone alpha-2 (Putative secreted protein Zsig51) (Thyrostimulin subunit alpha) | ||||||||||
| Protein function | Functions as a heterodimeric glycoprotein hormone with GPHB5 able to bind and activate the thyroid-stimulating hormone receptor (TSHR), leading to increased cAMP production (PubMed:12045258). Plays a central role in controlling thyroid cell meta | ||||||||||
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| Tissue specificity | TISSUE SPECIFICITY: Found in a variety of tissues. {ECO:0000269|PubMed:12089349}. | ||||||||||
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| Sequence length | 129 | ||||||||||
| Interactions | View interactions | ||||||||||
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Pathways
Pathway information has different metabolic/signaling pathways associated with genes.
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