CELSR2

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Cadherin, EGF LAG seven-pass G-type receptor 2 (flamingo homolog, Drosophila)
Identifiers
Symbols	CELSR2; CDHF10; EGFL2; FLJ34118; FLJ42737; FLJ45143; FLJ45845; Flamingo1; KIAA0279; MEGF3
External IDs	OMIM: 604265 MGI: 1858235 HomoloGene: 1078 IUPHAR: CELSR2 GeneCards: CELSR2 Gene
Gene Ontology Molecular function • receptor activity • G-protein coupled receptor activity • calcium ion binding Cellular component • membrane • integral to membrane Biological process • homophilic cell adhesion • signal transduction • neuropeptide signaling pathway • multicellular organismal development Sources: Amigo / EGO
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Orthologs
Species	Human	Mouse
Entrez	1952	53883
Ensembl	ENSG00000143126	ENSMUSG00000068740
UniProt	Q9HCU4	Q9R0M0
RefSeq (mRNA)	NM_001408	NM_001004177
RefSeq (protein)	NP_001399	NP_001004177
Location (UCSC)	Chr 1: 109.59 - 109.62 Mb	Chr 3: 108.52 - 108.54 Mb
PubMed search	[1]	[2]

Cadherin EGF LAG seven-pass G-type receptor 2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the CELSR2 gene.

The protein encoded by this gene is a member of the flamingo subfamily, part of the cadherin superfamily. The flamingo subfamily consists of nonclassic-type cadherins; a subpopulation that does not interact with catenins. The flamingo cadherins are located at the plasma membrane and have nine cadherin domains, seven epidermal growth factor-like repeats and two laminin A G-type repeats in their ectodomain. They also have seven transmembrane domains, a characteristic unique to this subfamily. It is postulated that these proteins are receptors involved in contact-mediated communication, with cadherin domains acting as homophilic binding regions and the EGF-like domains involved in cell adhesion and receptor-ligand interactions. The specific function of this particular member has not been determined.

See also

• Flamingo (protein)

Further reading

• Nagase T, Seki N, Ishikawa K; et al. (1997). "Prediction of the coding sequences of unidentified human genes. VI. The coding sequences of 80 new genes (KIAA0201-KIAA0280) deduced by analysis of cDNA clones from cell line KG-1 and brain". DNA Res. 3 (5): 321–9, 341–54. doi:10.1093/dnares/3.5.321. PMID 9039502. CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Wu Q, Maniatis T (1999). "A striking organization of a large family of human neural cadherin-like cell adhesion genes". Cell. 97 (6): 779–90. doi:10.1016/S0092-8674(00)80789-8. PMID 10380929. 
• Wu Q, Maniatis T (2000). "Large exons encoding multiple ectodomains are a characteristic feature of protocadherin genes". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 97 (7): 3124–9. doi:10.1073/pnas.060027397. PMC 16203 Freely accessible. PMID 10716726. 
• Vincent JB, Skaug J, Scherer SW (2001). "The human homologue of flamingo, EGFL2, encodes a brain-expressed large cadherin-like protein with epidermal growth factor-like domains, and maps to chromosome 1p13.3-p21.1". DNA Res. 7 (3): 233–5. doi:10.1093/dnares/7.3.233. PMID 10907856. CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Ota T, Suzuki Y, Nishikawa T; et al. (2004). "Complete sequencing and characterization of 21,243 full-length human cDNAs". Nat. Genet. 36 (1): 40–5. doi:10.1038/ng1285. PMID 14702039. CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)

This article incorporates text from the United States National Library of Medicine, which is in the public domain.