ACTA2

ACTA2
Identifiers
Aliases ACTA2, AAT6, ACTSA, MYMY5, actin, alpha 2, smooth muscle, aorta
External IDs MGI: 87909 HomoloGene: 133938 GeneCards: ACTA2
RNA expression pattern
More reference expression data
Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez

59

11475

Ensembl

ENSG00000107796

ENSMUSG00000035783

UniProt

P62736

P62737

RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_001141945
NM_001613
NM_001320855

NM_007392

RefSeq (protein)

NP_001135417.1
NP_001604.1
NP_001307784.1

NP_031418.1

Location (UCSC) Chr 10: 88.94 – 88.99 Mb Chr 19: 34.24 – 34.26 Mb
PubMed search [1] [2]
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Alpha-actin-2 also known as actin, aortic smooth muscle or alpha smooth muscle actin (α-SMA, SMactin, alpha-SM-actin, ASMA) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ACTA2 gene located on 10q22-q24.[3][4]

Actin alpha 2, the human aortic smooth muscle actin gene, is one of six different actin isoforms which have been identified. Actins are highly conserved proteins that are involved in cell motility, structure and integrity. Alpha actins are a major constituent of the contractile apparatus.[3]

Alpha-smooth muscle actin (α-SMA) is commonly used as a marker of myofibroblast formation (Nagamoto et al., 2000).

References

  1. "Human PubMed Reference:".
  2. "Mouse PubMed Reference:".
  3. 1 2 "Entrez Gene: ACTA2 actin, alpha 2, smooth muscle, aorta".
  4. Ueyama H, Bruns G, Kanda N (Oct 1990). "Assignment of the vascular smooth muscle actin gene ACTSA to human chromosome 10". Jinrui Idengaku Zasshi. 35 (2): 145–50. doi:10.1007/BF01876459. PMID 2398629.

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