Mammaglobin-B

Mammaglobin-B also known as secretoglobin family 2A member 1 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SCGB2A1 gene.^[5][6]

SCGB2A1
Identifiers
Aliases	SCGB2A1, LPHC, LPNC, MGB2, UGB3, secretoglobin family 2A member 1
External IDs	OMIM: 604398; HomoloGene: 88664; GeneCards: SCGB2A1; OMA:SCGB2A1 - orthologs
Gene location (Human) Chr. Chromosome 11 (human)[1] Band 11q12.3 Start 62,208,673 bp[1] End 62,213,943 bp[1]
Gene location (Mouse) Chr. Chromosome 19 (mouse)[2] Band 19 A Start 9,847,562 bp[2] End 9,852,808 bp[2]
RNA expression pattern Bgee Human Mouse (ortholog) Top expressed in corpus epididymis right uterine tube caput epididymis olfactory zone of nasal mucosa beta cell bronchial epithelial cell endometrium nasal epithelium tail of epididymis mucosa of paranasal sinus Top expressed in embryo embryo genital tubercle More reference expression data BioGPS More reference expression data
Gene ontology Molecular function protein heterodimerization activity Cellular component extracellular space extracellular region Biological process androgen receptor signaling pathway Sources:Amigo / QuickGO
Orthologs Species Human Mouse Entrez 4246 102639117 Ensembl ENSG00000124939 ENSMUSG00000096872 UniProt O75556 J3KMP9 RefSeq (mRNA) NM_002407 XM_006527538 RefSeq (protein) NP_002398 NP_001365339 Location (UCSC) Chr 11: 62.21 – 62.21 Mb Chr 19: 9.85 – 9.85 Mb PubMed search [3] [4]
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SCGB2A1 and breast cancer

SCGB2A1 expression is highly specific of mammary tissue, and has been used for identification and detection of disseminated breast cancer cells.^[7]