Mucin 20 Explained

Mucin-20 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the MUC20 gene.^{[1] [2]}

Further reading

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• Dias Neto E, Correa RG, Verjovski-Almeida S, etal . Shotgun sequencing of the human transcriptome with ORF expressed sequence tags. . Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. . 97 . 7 . 3491–6 . 2000 . 10737800 . 10.1073/pnas.97.7.3491 . 16267 . 2000PNAS...97.3491D . free .
• Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH, etal . 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 . free .
• Clark HF, Gurney AL, Abaya E, etal . 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 .
• Ota T, Suzuki Y, Nishikawa T, etal . Complete sequencing and characterization of 21,243 full-length human cDNAs. . Nat. Genet. . 36 . 1 . 40–5 . 2004 . 14702039 . 10.1038/ng1285 . free .
• Higuchi T, Orita T, Katsuya K, etal . MUC20 suppresses the hepatocyte growth factor-induced Grb2-Ras pathway by binding to a multifunctional docking site of met. . Mol. Cell. Biol. . 24 . 17 . 7456–68 . 2004 . 15314156 . 10.1128/MCB.24.17.7456-7468.2004 . 506992 .
• Suzuki Y, Yamashita R, Shirota M, etal . Sequence comparison of human and mouse genes reveals a homologous block structure in the promoter regions. . Genome Res. . 14 . 9 . 1711–8 . 2004 . 15342556 . 10.1101/gr.2435604 . 515316 .
• Li G, Zhang H, Lv J, etal . Tandem repeats polymorphism of MUC20 is an independent factor for the progression of immunoglobulin A nephropathy. . Am. J. Nephrol. . 26 . 1 . 43–9 . 2006 . 16508246 . 10.1159/000091785 . 38456730 .

Notes and References

1. Higuchi T, Orita T, Nakanishi S, Katsuya K, Watanabe H, Yamasaki Y, Waga I, Nanayama T, Yamamoto Y, Munger W, Sun HW, Falk RJ, Jennette JC, Alcorta DA, Li H, Yamamoto T, Saito Y, Nakamura M . Molecular cloning, genomic structure, and expression analysis of MUC20, a novel mucin protein, up-regulated in injured kidney . J Biol Chem . 279 . 3 . 1968–79 . Jan 2004 . 14565953 . 10.1074/jbc.M304558200 . free .
2. Web site: Entrez Gene: MUC20 mucin 20, cell surface associated.