小鼠 Egfbp2 (NM_010115) cDNA克隆

The protein encoded by this gene belongs to the kallikrein family, which is a highly homologous group of serine proteases encoded by a cluster of related genes on chromosome 7. This gene has been shown to function as both a prorenin converting enzyme and as epidermal growth factor (EGF)-binding protein involved in the maturation of EGF (PMIDs: 1918045, 3322387, 9685728). This gene is thought to be distinct from Klk1b26 gene (GeneID:16618), with which it shares 98% identity (PMID:1959648, 9685728), however, it is not clear if both genes are present in all strains of mice. Blast analyses suggest that this gene is missing from the current reference (GRCm38, based on C57BL/6J genome) and alternate Celera (based on mixed strain genomes) assemblies. Therefore, the RefSeq for this locus was based on sequence from the ICR strain, which has been reported in literature (PMID:1959648) to contain both genes. [provided by RefSeq, Aug 2012]