PWP2

Periodic tryptophan protein 2 homolog is a protein that in humans is encoded by the PWP2 gene.[3][4]

PWP2
Identifiers
Aliases	PWP2, EHOC-17, PWP2H, UTP1, PWP2 periodic tryptophan protein homolog (yeast), small subunit processome component, PWP2 small subunit processome component
External IDs	OMIM: 601475 HomoloGene: 136786 GeneCards: PWP2
Gene location (Human) Chr. Chromosome 21 (human)[1] Band 21q22.3 Start 44,107,373 bp[1] End 44,131,181 bp[1]
RNA expression pattern More reference expression data
Gene ontology Molecular function • snoRNA binding • RNA binding Cellular component • Pwp2p-containing subcomplex of 90S preribosome • cell nucleus • nucleolus • small-subunit processome • nucleoplasm Biological process • ribosomal small subunit assembly • maturation of SSU-rRNA from tricistronic rRNA transcript (SSU-rRNA, 5.8S rRNA, LSU-rRNA) • rRNA processing Sources:Amigo / QuickGO
Orthologs
Species	Human	Mouse
Entrez	5822	n/a
Ensembl	ENSG00000241945	n/a
UniProt	Q15269	n/a
RefSeq (mRNA)	NM_005049	n/a
RefSeq (protein)	NP_005040	n/a
Location (UCSC)	Chr 21: 44.11 – 44.13 Mb	n/a
PubMed search	[2]	n/a
Wikidata
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References

1. GRCh38: Ensembl release 89: ENSG00000241945 - Ensembl, May 2017
2. "Human PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
3. Yamakawa K, Gao DQ, Korenberg JR (Dec 1996). "A periodic tryptophan protein 2 gene homologue (PWP2H) in the candidate region of progressive myoclonus epilepsy on 21q22.3". Cytogenet Cell Genet. 74 (1–2): 140–5. doi:10.1159/000134402. PMID 8893822.
4. "Entrez Gene: PWP2 PWP2 periodic tryptophan protein homolog (yeast)".

Further reading

• Lalioti MD, Chen H, Rossier C, et al. (1996). "Cloning the cDNA of human PWP2, which encodes a protein with WD repeats and maps to 21q22.3". Genomics. 35 (2): 321–7. doi:10.1006/geno.1996.0363. PMID 8661145.
• Bonaldo MF, Lennon G, Soares MB (1997). "Normalization and subtraction: two approaches to facilitate gene discovery". Genome Res. 6 (9): 791–806. doi:10.1101/gr.6.9.791. PMID 8889548.
• Lafrenière RG, Rochefort DL, Chrétien N, et al. (1997). "Isolation and genomic structure of a human homolog of the yeast periodic tryptophan protein 2 (PWP2) gene mapping to 21q22.3". Genome Res. 6 (12): 1216–26. doi:10.1101/gr.6.12.1216. PMID 8973917.
• Nagamine K, Kudoh J, Kawasaki K, et al. (1997). "Genomic organization and complete nucleotide sequence of the TMEM1 gene on human chromosome 21q22.3". Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 235 (1): 185–90. doi:10.1006/bbrc.1997.6758. PMID 9196060.
• Nagamine K, Kudoh J, Minoshima S, et al. (1997). "Genomic organization and complete nucleotide sequence of the human PWP2 gene on chromosome 21". Genomics. 42 (3): 528–31. doi:10.1006/geno.1997.4761. PMID 9205129.
• Hattori M, Fujiyama A, Taylor TD, et al. (2000). "The DNA sequence of human chromosome 21". Nature. 405 (6784): 311–9. doi:10.1038/35012518. PMID 10830953.
• Scherl A, Couté Y, Déon C, et al. (2003). "Functional Proteomic Analysis of Human Nucleolus". Mol. Biol. Cell. 13 (11): 4100–9. doi:10.1091/mbc.E02-05-0271. PMC 133617. PMID 12429849.
• 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. doi:10.1073/pnas.242603899. PMC 139241. PMID 12477932.
• Gerhard DS, Wagner L, Feingold EA, et al. (2004). "The Status, Quality, and Expansion of the NIH Full-Length cDNA Project: The Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC)". Genome Res. 14 (10B): 2121–7. doi:10.1101/gr.2596504. PMC 528928. PMID 15489334.