Brevican

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BCAN
Identifiers
Aliases BCAN , BEHAB, CSPG7, Brevican
External IDs OMIM: 600347 MGI: 1096385 HomoloGene: 7244 GeneCards: BCAN
Orthologs
SpeciesHumanMouse
Entrez
Ensembl
UniProt
RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_021948
NM_198427

NM_001109758
NM_007529

RefSeq (protein)

NP_068767
NP_940819

NP_001103228
NP_031555

Location (UCSC) Chr 1: 156.64 – 156.66 Mb Chr 3: 87.99 – 88 Mb
PubMed search [3] [4]
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Brevican core protein is a protein that in humans is encoded by the BCAN gene. [5] [6] [7] Brevican is a member of the lectican protein family.

Contents

Brevican is localised to the surface of neurons in the brain. [8] In melanocytic cells, BCAN gene expression may be regulated by MITF. [9]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 GRCh38: Ensembl release 89: ENSG00000132692 - Ensembl, May 2017
  2. 1 2 3 GRCm38: Ensembl release 89: ENSMUSG00000004892 - 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. Gary SC, Zerillo CA, Chiang VL, Gaw JU, Gray G, Hockfield S (Oct 2000). "cDNA cloning, chromosomal localization, and expression analysis of human BEHAB/brevican, a brain specific proteoglycan regulated during cortical development and in glioma". Gene. 256 (1–2): 139–47. doi:10.1016/S0378-1119(00)00362-0. PMID   11054543.
  6. Nomoto H, Oohashi T, Hirakawa S, Ueki Y, Ohtsuki H, Ninomiya Y (Feb 2002). "Human BRAL1 and BCAN genes that belong to the link-module superfamily are tandemly arranged on chromosome 1q21-23". Acta Medica Okayama. 56 (1): 25–9. PMID   11873941.
  7. "Entrez Gene: BCAN brevican".
  8. Frischknecht R, Seidenbecher CI (Jul 2012). "Brevican: a key proteoglycan in the perisynaptic extracellular matrix of the brain". The International Journal of Biochemistry & Cell Biology. 44 (7): 1051–4. doi:10.1016/j.biocel.2012.03.022. PMID   22537913.
  9. Hoek KS, Schlegel NC, Eichhoff OM, Widmer DS, Praetorius C, Einarsson SO, Valgeirsdottir S, Bergsteinsdottir K, Schepsky A, Dummer R, Steingrimsson E (Dec 2008). "Novel MITF targets identified using a two-step DNA microarray strategy". Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research. 21 (6): 665–76. doi: 10.1111/j.1755-148X.2008.00505.x . PMID   19067971.

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