EFHC2
EF-hand domain (C-terminal) containing 2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the EFHC2 gene.[5][6]
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Aliases | EFHC2, MRX74, dJ1158H2.1, EF-hand domain containing 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
External IDs | OMIM: 300817 MGI: 1921655 HomoloGene: 11863 GeneCards: EFHC2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Species | Human | Mouse | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Location (UCSC) | Chr X: 44.15 – 44.34 Mb | Chr X: 17.13 – 17.32 Mb | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Gene
EFHC2 is located on the negative strand (sense strand) of the X chromosome at p11.3. EFHC2 is one of a few, select number of genes with in vitro evidence suggesting it escapes X inactivation.[7] EFHC2 spans 195,796 base pairs and is neighbored by NDP, the gene encoding for Norrie disease protein. Preliminary evidence based on genome wide association studies have linked a SNP in the intron between exons 13 and 14 of EFHC2 with harm avoidance.[8]
The mRNA transcript encoding the EFHC2 protein is 3,269 base pairs. The first ninety base pairs compose the five prime untranslated region and the last 1913 base pairs compose the three prime untranslated region.
Protein
The EFHC2 gene encodes a 749-amino acid protein which contains three DM10 domains (InterPro: IPR006602) and three calcium-binding EF-hand motifs.[5]
The isoelectric point of EFHC2 is estimated to be 7.13 in humans.[9] Relative to other proteins expressed in humans, EFHC2 has fewer alanine residues and a greater number of tyrosine residues and is predicted to reside in the cytoplasm.[10][11]
Tissue distribution
EFHC2 is widely expressed in the central nervous system as well as peripheral tissues.[12]
Clinical significance
A related protein, EFHC1 is encoded by a gene on chromosome 6. It has been suggested that both proteins are involved in the development of epilepsy[6][13] and that this gene may be associated with fear recognition in individuals with Turner syndrome.[5]
A mutation in EFHC2 which results in a serine to a tyrosine substitution at amino acid position 430 (S430Y) has been associated with juvenile myoclonic epilepsy in a male, German population.[6] Additionally, a single nucleotide polymorphism in EFHC2 correlates to a reduced ability of Turner syndrome patients to recognize fear in facial expressions;[14] however, these findings remain controversial.[15]
Conservation in other species
Species | Common Name | Protein Accession Number | Sequence Length | Sequence Identity (%) | Sequence Similarity (%) | mRNA Accession Number | Years Since Divergence (millions) |
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Pan troglodytes | chimpanzee | XP_003317486.1 | 749 | 99 | 100 | XM_003317438.1 | 6.4 |
Rattus norvegicus | Rat | NP_001100422.1 | 750 | 79 | 88 | NM_001106952.1 | 94.4 |
Ailuropoda | Giant Panda | EFB16666.1 | 732 | 79 | 89 | - | 92.4 |
Canis lupus familiaris | Domesticated Dog | XP_538007.2 | 779 | 79 | 89 | XM_538007.2 | 92.4 |
Bos taurus | Cow | XP_002700247.1 | 733 | 77 | 89 | XM_002700201.1 | 94.4 |
Mus musculus | Mouse | NP_083192.2 | 750 | 76 | 87 | NM_028916.4 | 94.4 |
Monodelphis domestica | Opossum | XP_001377972.1 | 755 | 67 | 82 | XM_001377935.1 | 163.9 |
Gallus gallus | Chicken | NP_001032918.1 | 764 | 65 | 81 | NM_001037829.1 | 301.7 |
Xenopus (Silurana) tropicalis | Frog | NP_001136133.1 | 741 | 63 | 79 | NM_001142661.1 | 371.2 |
Danio rerio | Zebrafish | NP_001032472.1 | 762 | 62 | 76 | NM_001037395.1 | 400.1 |
Ciona intestinalis | Sea Squirt | NP_001071886.1 | 741 | 62 | 80 | NM_001078418.1 | 722.5 |
Saccoglossus kowalevskii | Acorn Worm | XP_002735862.1 | 747 | 61 | 77 | XM_002735816.1 | 891.8 |
Nematostella vectensis | Sea Anemone | XP_001624761.1 | 736 | 60 | 77 | XM_001624711.1 | 742.9 |
Strongylocentrotus purpuratus | Sea Urchin | XP_798540.1 | 744 | 59 | 72 | XM_793447.2 | 792.4 |
Schistosoma mansoni | Trematode | XP_002579977.1 | 767 | 56 | 73 | XM_002579931.1 | 734.8 |
Amphimedon queenslandic | Sponge | XP_003389005.1 | 720 | 52 | 70 | XM_003388957.1 | 782.7 |
Anopheles gambiae | Mosquito | XP_558349.4 | 762 | 44 | 61 | XM_558349.4 | 782.7 |
Camponotus floridanus | Ant | EFN72623.1 | 762 | 41 | 62 | - | 782.7 |
Nasonia vitripennis | Jewel Wasp | XP_001603780.2 | 751 | 39 | 57 | XM_001603730.2 | 782.7 |
Drosophila melanogaster | Fruit Fly | NP_611459 | 765 | 37 | 54 | NM_137615.2 | 661.2 |
References
- GRCh38: Ensembl release 89: ENSG00000183690 - Ensembl, May 2017
- GRCm38: Ensembl release 89: ENSMUSG00000025038 - Ensembl, May 2017
- "Human PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
- "Mouse PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
- "Entrez Gene: EF-hand domain (C-terminal) containing 2". Retrieved 2012-05-07.
- Gu W, Sander T, Heils A, Lenzen KP, Steinlein OK (2005). "A new EF-hand containing gene EFHC2 on Xp11.4: tentative evidence for association with juvenile myoclonic epilepsy". Epilepsy Research. 66 (1–3): 91–8. doi:10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2005.07.003. PMID 16112844.
- Castagné R, Zeller T, Rotival M, Szymczak S, Truong V, Schillert A, Trégouët DA, Münzel T, Ziegler A, Cambien F, Blankenberg S, Tiret L (Nov 2011). "Influence of sex and genetic variability on expression of X-linked genes in human monocytes". Genomics. 98 (5): 320–6. doi:10.1016/j.ygeno.2011.06.009. PMID 21763416.
- Blaya C, Moorjani P, Salum GA, Gonçalves L, Weiss LA, Leistner-Segal S, Manfro GG, Smoller JW (Mar 2009). "Preliminary evidence of association between EFHC2, a gene implicated in fear recognition, and harm avoidance". Neuroscience Letters. 452 (1): 84–6. doi:10.1016/j.neulet.2009.01.036. PMID 19429002.
- Wilkins MR, Gasteiger E, Bairoch A, Sanchez JC, Williams KL, Appel RD, Hochstrasser DF (1999). "Protein identification and analysis tools in the ExPASy server". Methods in Molecular Biology. 112: 531–52. doi:10.1385/1-59259-584-7:531. PMID 10027275.
- Brendel V, Bucher P, Nourbakhsh IR, Blaisdell BE, Karlin S (Mar 1992). "Methods and algorithms for statistical analysis of protein sequences". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 89 (6): 2002–6. Bibcode:1992PNAS...89.2002B. doi:10.1073/pnas.89.6.2002. PMC 48584. PMID 1549558.
- Horton P, Nakai K (1997). "Better prediction of protein cellular localization sites with the k nearest neighbors classifier". Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology. 5: 147–52. PMID 9322029.
- Weiss LA, Purcell S, Waggoner S, Lawrence K, Spektor D, Daly MJ, Sklar P, Skuse D (Jan 2007). "Identification of EFHC2 as a quantitative trait locus for fear recognition in Turner syndrome". Human Molecular Genetics. 16 (1): 107–13. doi:10.1093/hmg/ddl445. PMID 17164267.
- Suzuki T, Delgado-Escueta AV, Aguan K, Alonso ME, Shi J, Hara Y, Nishida M, Numata T, Medina MT, Takeuchi T, Morita R, Bai D, Ganesh S, Sugimoto Y, Inazawa J, Bailey JN, Ochoa A, Jara-Prado A, Rasmussen A, Ramos-Peek J, Cordova S, Rubio-Donnadieu F, Inoue Y, Osawa M, Kaneko S, Oguni H, Mori Y, Yamakawa K (Aug 2004). "Mutations in EFHC1 cause juvenile myoclonic epilepsy". Nature Genetics. 36 (8): 842–9. doi:10.1038/ng1393. PMID 15258581.
- Rodriguez-Revenga L, Madrigal I, Alkhalidi LS, Armengol L, González E, Badenas C, Estivill X, Milà M (May 2007). "Contiguous deletion of the NDP, MAOA, MAOB, and EFHC2 genes in a patient with Norrie disease, severe psychomotor retardation and myoclonic epilepsy". American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A. 143A (9): 916–20. doi:10.1002/ajmg.a.31521. PMID 17431911.
- Zinn AR, Kushner H, Ross JL (Jun 2008). "EFHC2 SNP rs7055196 is not associated with fear recognition in 45,X Turner syndrome". American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B. 147B (4): 507–9. doi:10.1002/ajmg.b.30625. PMID 17948898.