Extracellular matrix protein 2 explained

Extracellular matrix protein 2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ECM2 gene.^{[1] [2]}

ECM2 encodes extracellular matrix protein 2, so named because it shares extensive similarity with known extracellular matrix proteins.

Further reading

• Oritani K, Kanakura Y, Aoyama K . Matrix glycoprotein SC1/ECM2 augments B lymphopoiesis. . Blood . 90 . 9 . 3404–13 . 1997 . 9345023 . 10.1182/blood.V90.9.3404. etal. free .
• Hartley JL, Temple GF, Brasch MA . DNA cloning using in vitro site-specific recombination. . Genome Res. . 10 . 11 . 1788–95 . 2001 . 11076863 . 10.1101/gr.143000 . 310948 .
• Wiemann S, Weil B, Wellenreuther R . Toward a catalog of human genes and proteins: sequencing and analysis of 500 novel complete protein coding human cDNAs. . Genome Res. . 11 . 3 . 422–35 . 2001 . 11230166 . 10.1101/gr.GR1547R . 311072 . etal.
• Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH . Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences. . Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. . 99 . 26 . 16899–903 . 2003 . 12477932 . 10.1073/pnas.242603899 . 139241 . 2002PNAS...9916899M . etal. free .
• Humphray SJ, Oliver K, Hunt AR . DNA sequence and analysis of human chromosome 9. . Nature . 429 . 6990 . 369–74 . 2004 . 15164053 . 10.1038/nature02465 . 2734081 . 2004Natur.429..369H . etal.
• Gerhard DS, Wagner L, Feingold EA . The status, quality, and expansion of the NIH full-length cDNA project: the Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC). . Genome Res. . 14 . 10B . 2121–7 . 2004 . 15489334 . 10.1101/gr.2596504 . 528928 . etal.
• Wiemann S, Arlt D, Huber W . From ORFeome to biology: a functional genomics pipeline. . Genome Res. . 14 . 10B . 2136–44 . 2004 . 15489336 . 10.1101/gr.2576704 . 528930 . etal.
• Mehrle A, Rosenfelder H, Schupp I . The LIFEdb database in 2006. . Nucleic Acids Res. . 34 . Database issue . D415–8 . 2006 . 16381901 . 10.1093/nar/gkj139 . 1347501 . etal.

Notes and References

1. Nishiu J, Tanaka T, Nakamura Y . Identification of a novel gene (ECM2) encoding a putative extracellular matrix protein expressed predominantly in adipose and female-specific tissues and its chromosomal localization to 9q22.3 . Genomics . 52 . 3 . 378–81 . Dec 1998 . 9790758 . 10.1006/geno.1998.5455 .
2. Web site: Entrez Gene: ECM2 extracellular matrix protein 2, female organ and adipocyte specific.