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Calpain-2 catalytic subunit

Protein found in humans From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Calpain-2 catalytic subunit
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Calpain-2 catalytic subunit is a protein that in humans is encoded by the CAPN2 gene.[5][6]

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Function

The calpains, calcium-activated neutral proteases, are nonlysosomal, intracellular cysteine proteases. The mammalian calpains include ubiquitous, stomach-specific, and muscle-specific proteins. The ubiquitous enzymes consist of heterodimers with distinct large, catalytic subunits associated with a common small, regulatory subunit. This gene encodes the large subunit of the ubiquitous enzyme, calpain 2. Multiple heterogeneous transcriptional start sites in the 5' UTR have been reported.[7]

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Interactions

CAPN2 has been shown to interact with Bcl-2.[8]

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