PCOLCE2 explained

Procollagen C-endopeptidase enhancer 2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the PCOLCE2 gene.^{[1] [2]}

Further reading

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• Suzuki Y, Yoshitomo-Nakagawa K, Maruyama K, etal . Construction and characterization of a full length-enriched and a 5'-end-enriched cDNA library. . Gene . 200 . 1–2 . 149–56 . 1997 . 9373149 . 10.1016/S0378-1119(97)00411-3 .
• Kumar S, Connor JR, Dodds RA, etal . Identification and initial characterization of 5000 expressed sequenced tags (ESTs) each from adult human normal and osteoarthritic cartilage cDNA libraries. . Osteoarthr. Cartil. . 9 . 7 . 641–53 . 2001 . 11597177 . 10.1053/joca.2001.0421 . free .
• Steiglitz BM, Greenspan DS . Assignment of the mouse Pcolce2 gene, which encodes procollagen C-proteinase enhancer protein 2, to chromosome 9 and localization of PCOLCE2 to human chromosome 3q23. . Cytogenet. Cell Genet. . 95 . 3–4 . 244–5 . 2002 . 12063410 . 10.1159/000059356 . 7566205 .
• Steiglitz BM, Keene DR, Greenspan DS . PCOLCE2 encodes a functional procollagen C-proteinase enhancer (PCPE2) that is a collagen-binding protein differing in distribution of expression and post-translational modification from the previously described PCPE1. . J. Biol. Chem. . 277 . 51 . 49820–30 . 2003 . 12393877 . 10.1074/jbc.M209891200 . 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 .
• Zhang Z, Henzel WJ . Signal peptide prediction based on analysis of experimentally verified cleavage sites. . Protein Sci. . 13 . 10 . 2819–24 . 2005 . 15340161 . 10.1110/ps.04682504 . 2286551 .
• Gerhard DS, Wagner L, Feingold EA, etal . 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 .
• Otsuki T, Ota T, Nishikawa T, etal . 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 . free .

Notes and References

1. Xu H, Acott TS, Wirtz MK . Identification and expression of a novel type I procollagen C-proteinase enhancer protein gene from the glaucoma candidate region on 3q21-q24 . Genomics . 66 . 3 . 264–73 . Sep 2000 . 10873381 . 10.1006/geno.2000.6229 .
2. Web site: Entrez Gene: PCOLCE2 procollagen C-endopeptidase enhancer 2.