FUCA2 explained

Plasma alpha-L-fucosidase (see alpha-L-fucosidase) is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the FUCA2 gene.^{[1] [2]}

See also

• Tissue alpha-L-fucosidase, encoded by FUCA1 gene

Further reading

• Narahara K, Tsuji K, Yokoyama Y . Specification of small distal 6q deletions in two patients by gene dosage and in situ hybridization study of plasminogen and alpha-L-fucosidase 2. . Am. J. Med. Genet. . 40 . 3 . 348–53 . 1991 . 1951444 . 10.1002/ajmg.1320400322 . etal.
• O'Brien JS, Willems PJ, Fukushima H . Molecular biology of the alpha-L-fucosidase gene and fucosidosis. . Enzyme . 38 . 1–4 . 45–53 . 1988 . 2894306 . 10.1159/000469189. etal.
• Cordero OJ, Merino A, Páez de la Cadena M . Cell surface human alpha-L-fucosidase. . Eur. J. Biochem. . 268 . 11 . 3321–31 . 2001 . 11389735 . 10.1046/j.1432-1327.2001.02237.x . etal. free .
• 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 .
• Clark HF, Gurney AL, Abaya E . The secreted protein discovery initiative (SPDI), a large-scale effort to identify novel human secreted and transmembrane proteins: a bioinformatics assessment. . Genome Res. . 13 . 10 . 2265–70 . 2003 . 12975309 . 10.1101/gr.1293003 . 403697 . etal.
• Mungall AJ, Palmer SA, Sims SK . The DNA sequence and analysis of human chromosome 6. . Nature . 425 . 6960 . 805–11 . 2003 . 14574404 . 10.1038/nature02055 . 2003Natur.425..805M . etal. free .
• 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.
• Otsuki T, Ota T, Nishikawa T . Signal sequence and keyword trap in silico for selection of full-length human cDNAs encoding secretion or membrane proteins from oligo-capped cDNA libraries. . DNA Res. . 12 . 2 . 117–26 . 2007 . 16303743 . 10.1093/dnares/12.2.117 . etal. free .

Notes and References

1. Eiberg H, Mohr J, Nielsen LS . Linkage of plasma alpha-L-fucosidase (FUCA2) and the plasminogen (PLG) system . Clin Genet . 26 . 1 . 23–9 . Oct 1984 . 6590153 . 10.1111/j.1399-0004.1984.tb00782.x . 85371006 .
2. Web site: Entrez Gene: FUCA2 fucosidase, alpha-L- 2, plasma.