Tetraspanin-32 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the TSPAN32 gene.[5][6][7]

Function

This gene is described as a member of the tetraspanin superfamily whose expression is confined to hematopoietic tissues.[7]

Clinical significance

This gene is one of several tumor-suppressing subtransferable fragments located in the imprinted gene domain of 11p15.5, an important tumor suppressor gene region. Alterations in this region have been associated with the Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome, Wilms tumor, rhabdomyosarcoma, adrenocortical carcinoma, and lung, ovarian, and breast cancer. This gene is located among several imprinted genes; however, this gene, as well as the tumor-suppressing subchromosomal transferable fragment 4 (TSSC4), escapes imprinting. This gene may play a role in malignancies and disease that involve this region as well as hematopoietic cell function.[7]

References

  1. ^ a b c GRCh38: Ensembl release 89: ENSG00000064201Ensembl, May 2017
  2. ^ a b c GRCm38: Ensembl release 89: ENSMUSG00000000244Ensembl, 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. ^ Lee MP, Brandenburg S, Landes GM, Adams M, Miller G, Feinberg AP (Apr 1999). "Two novel genes in the center of the 11p15 imprinted domain escape genomic imprinting". Hum Mol Genet. 8 (4): 683–90. doi:10.1093/hmg/8.4.683. PMID 10072438.
  6. ^ Nicholson RH, Pantano S, Eliason JF, Galy A, Weiler S, Kaplan J, Hughes MR, Ko MS (Sep 2000). "Phemx, a novel mouse gene expressed in hematopoietic cells maps to the imprinted cluster on distal chromosome 7". Genomics. 68 (1): 13–21. doi:10.1006/geno.2000.6277. PMID 10950922.
  7. ^ a b c "Entrez Gene: TSPAN32 tetraspanin 32".

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