PNMA2 explained

Paraneoplastic antigen Ma2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the PNMA2 gene.^{[1] [2]}

Further reading

• Hillier LD, Lennon G, Becker M, etal . Generation and analysis of 280,000 human expressed sequence tags. . Genome Res. . 6 . 9 . 807–28 . 1997 . 8889549 . 10.1101/gr.6.9.807 . free .
• Nagase T, Ishikawa K, Suyama M, etal . Prediction of the coding sequences of unidentified human genes. XII. The complete sequences of 100 new cDNA clones from brain which code for large proteins in vitro. . DNA Res. . 5 . 6 . 355–64 . 1999 . 10048485 . 10.1093/dnares/5.6.355 . free .
• Dalmau J, Gultekin SH, Voltz R, etal . Ma1, a novel neuron- and testis-specific protein, is recognized by the serum of patients with paraneoplastic neurological disorders. . Brain . 122 . 1. 27–39 . 1999 . 10050892 . 10.1093/brain/122.1.27 . free .
• Rosenfeld MR, Eichen JG, Wade DF, etal . Molecular and clinical diversity in paraneoplastic immunity to Ma proteins. . Ann. Neurol. . 50 . 3 . 339–48 . 2001 . 11558790 . 10.1002/ana.1288 . 24518861 .
• 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 .
• 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 .
• 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 .
• Kimura K, Wakamatsu A, Suzuki Y, etal . Diversification of transcriptional modulation: large-scale identification and characterization of putative alternative promoters of human genes. . Genome Res. . 16 . 1 . 55–65 . 2006 . 16344560 . 10.1101/gr.4039406 . 1356129 .
• Ewing RM, Chu P, Elisma F, etal . Large-scale mapping of human protein-protein interactions by mass spectrometry. . Mol. Syst. Biol. . 3 . 1. 89 . 2007 . 17353931 . 10.1038/msb4100134 . 1847948 .

Notes and References

1. Voltz R, Gultekin SH, Rosenfeld MR, Gerstner E, Eichen J, Posner JB, Dalmau J . A serologic marker of paraneoplastic limbic and brain-stem encephalitis in patients with testicular cancer . N Engl J Med . 340 . 23 . 1788–95 . Jun 1999 . 10362822 . 10.1056/NEJM199906103402303 . free .
2. Web site: Entrez Gene: PNMA2 paraneoplastic antigen MA2.