ALS2

ALS2
Identifiers
Aliases	ALS2 , ALS2CR6, ALSJ, IAHSP, PLSJ, alsin Rho guanine nucleotide exchange factor, alsin Rho guanine nucleotide exchange factor ALS2
External IDs	OMIM: 606352; MGI: 1921268; HomoloGene: 23264; GeneCards: ALS2; OMA:ALS2 - orthologs
Gene location (Human) Chr. Chromosome 2 (human) [1] Band 2q33.1 Start 201,700,267 bp [1] End 201,782,112 bp [1]
Gene location (Mouse) Chr. Chromosome 1 (mouse) [2] Band 1|1 C1.3 Start 59,202,085 bp [2] End 59,276,390 bp [2]
RNA expression pattern Bgee Human Mouse (ortholog) Top expressed in cerebellum cerebellar cortex cerebellar hemisphere right hemisphere of cerebellum cerebellar vermis tibialis anterior muscle myocardium of left ventricle cardiac muscle tissue of right atrium deltoid muscle sural nerve Top expressed in neural layer of retina dentate gyrus of hippocampal formation granule cell cerebellar cortex morula zygote muscle of thigh right kidney ventricular zone yolk sac primary visual cortex More reference expression data BioGPS More reference expression data
Gene ontology Molecular function protein homodimerization activity guanyl-nucleotide exchange factor activity protein serine/threonine kinase activator activity protein binding Cellular component cytoplasm vesicle centrosome membrane postsynaptic density intracellular membrane-bounded organelle growth cone ruffle dendritic spine axon soma dendrite early endosome neuron projection lamellipodium cytosol protein-containing complex Biological process protein localization neuron projection morphogenesis synaptic transmission, glutamatergic axonogenesis locomotory behavior vesicle organization regulation of GTPase activity cell death in utero embryonic development behavioral fear response response to oxidative stress endosome organization endosomal transport positive regulation of GTPase activity receptor recycling neuromuscular junction development Rac protein signal transduction regulation of Rho protein signal transduction regulation of endosome size positive regulation of Rac protein signal transduction positive regulation of protein kinase activity positive regulation of protein serine/threonine kinase activity Sources:Amigo / QuickGO
Orthologs Species Human Mouse Entrez 57679 74018 Ensembl ENSG00000003393 ENSMUSG00000026024 UniProt Q96Q42 Q920R0 RefSeq (mRNA) NM_001135745 NM_020919 NM_001159948 NM_028717 NM_146109 RefSeq (protein) NP_001129217 NP_065970 NP_001153420 NP_082993 NP_666221 Location (UCSC) Chr 2: 201.7 – 201.78 Mb Chr 1: 59.2 – 59.28 Mb PubMed search [3] [4]
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Alsin is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ALS2 gene. ^{[5] [6]} ALS2 orthologs ^[7] have been identified in all mammals for which complete genome data are available.

See also

• Juvenile primary lateral sclerosis
• Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

References

1. GRCh38: Ensembl release 89: ENSG00000003393 – Ensembl, May 2017
2. GRCm38: Ensembl release 89: ENSMUSG00000026024 – Ensembl, May 2017
3. "Human PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
4. "Mouse PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
5. Hadano S, Hand CK, Osuga H, Yanagisawa Y, Otomo A, Devon RS, Miyamoto N, Showguchi-Miyata J, Okada Y, Singaraja R, Figlewicz DA, Kwiatkowski T, Hosler BA, Sagie T, Skaug J, Nasir J, Brown RH Jr, Scherer SW, Rouleau GA, Hayden MR, Ikeda JE (Oct 2001). "A gene encoding a putative GTPase regulator is mutated in familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 2". Nat Genet. 29 (2): 166–73. doi:10.1038/ng1001-166. PMID   11586298. S2CID   52828189.
6. "Entrez Gene: ALS2 amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 2 (juvenile)".
7. "OrthoMaM phylogenetic marker: ALS2 coding sequence". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2009-12-09.

Further reading

• Hadano S (2002). "[Causative genes for familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis]". Seikagaku. 74 (6): 483–9. PMID   12138710.
• Nakajima D, Okazaki N, Yamakawa H, et al. (2003). "Construction of expression-ready cDNA clones for KIAA genes: manual curation of 330 KIAA cDNA clones". DNA Res. 9 (3): 99–106. doi: 10.1093/dnares/9.3.99 . PMID   12168954.
• Hadano S, Nichol K, Brinkman RR, et al. (1999). "A yeast artificial chromosome-based physical map of the juvenile amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS2) critical region on human chromosome 2q33-q34". Genomics. 55 (1): 106–12. doi:10.1006/geno.1998.5637. PMID   9889004.
• Hosler BA, Sapp PC, Berger R, et al. (2000). "Refined mapping and characterization of the recessive familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis locus (ALS2) on chromosome 2q33". Neurogenetics. 2 (1): 34–42. doi:10.1007/s100480050049. PMID   9933298. S2CID   33368578.
• Nagase T, Kikuno R, Nakayama M, et al. (2001). "Prediction of the coding sequences of unidentified human genes. XVIII. The complete sequences of 100 new cDNA clones from brain which code for large proteins in vitro". DNA Res. 7 (4): 273–81. doi: 10.1093/dnares/7.4.271 . PMID   10997877.
• Yang Y, Hentati A, Deng HX, et al. (2001). "The gene encoding alsin, a protein with three guanine-nucleotide exchange factor domains, is mutated in a form of recessive amyotrophic lateral sclerosis". Nat. Genet. 29 (2): 160–5. doi:10.1038/ng1001-160. PMID   11586297. S2CID   9036123.
• Birkenhäger R, Otto E, Schürmann MJ, et al. (2001). "Mutation of BSND causes Bartter syndrome with sensorineural deafness and kidney failure". Nat. Genet. 29 (3): 310–4. doi:10.1038/ng752. PMID   11687798. S2CID   5892001.
• Eymard-Pierre E, Lesca G, Dollet S, et al. (2002). "Infantile-Onset Ascending Hereditary Spastic Paralysis Is Associated with Mutations in the Alsin Gene". Am. J. Hum. Genet. 71 (3): 518–27. doi:10.1086/342359. PMC   379189 . PMID   12145748.
• Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH, et al. (2003). "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. Bibcode:2002PNAS...9916899M. doi: 10.1073/pnas.242603899 . PMC   139241 . PMID   12477932.
• Lesca G, Eymard-Pierre E, Santorelli FM, et al. (2004). "Infantile ascending hereditary spastic paralysis (IAHSP): clinical features in 11 families". Neurology. 60 (4): 674–82. doi:10.1212/01.wnl.0000048207.28790.25. PMID   12601111. S2CID   20968387.
• Otomo A, Hadano S, Okada T, et al. (2003). "ALS2, a novel guanine nucleotide exchange factor for the small GTPase Rab5, is implicated in endosomal dynamics". Hum. Mol. Genet. 12 (14): 1671–87. doi: 10.1093/hmg/ddg184 . PMID   12837691.
• Nagano I, Murakami T, Shiote M, et al. (2003). "Single-nucleotide polymorphisms in uncoding regions of ALS2 gene of Japanese patients with autosomal-recessive amyotrophic lateral sclerosis". Neurol. Res. 25 (5): 505–9. doi:10.1179/016164103101201733. PMID   12866199. S2CID   42350605.
• Devon RS, Helm JR, Rouleau GA, et al. (2004). "The first nonsense mutation in alsin results in a homogeneous phenotype of infantile-onset ascending spastic paralysis with bulbar involvement in two siblings". Clin. Genet. 64 (3): 210–5. doi:10.1034/j.1399-0004.2003.00138.x. PMID   12919135. S2CID   27423316.
• Yamanaka K, Vande Velde C, Eymard-Pierre E, et al. (2004). "Unstable mutants in the peripheral endosomal membrane component ALS2 cause early-onset motor neuron disease". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 100 (26): 16041–6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2635267100 . PMC   307689 . PMID   14668431.
• Hand CK, Devon RS, Gros-Louis F, et al. (2004). "Mutation screening of the ALS2 gene in sporadic and familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis". Arch. Neurol. 60 (12): 1768–71. doi:10.1001/archneur.60.12.1768. PMID   14676054.
• 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.
• Kanekura K, Hashimoto Y, Niikura T, et al. (2004). "Alsin, the product of ALS2 gene, suppresses SOD1 mutant neurotoxicity through RhoGEF domain by interacting with SOD1 mutants". J. Biol. Chem. 279 (18): 19247–56. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M313236200 . PMID   14970233.

External links

• GeneReviews/NCBI/NIH/UW entry on ALS2-Related Disorders
• OMIM entries on ALS2-Related Disorders
• Genetics Home Reference- US National Library of Medicine
• Human ALS2 genome location and ALS2 gene details page in the UCSC Genome Browser .