EMCN
Sign in to saveAlso known as EMCN2, MUC14, endomucin
Endomucin is a protein that in humans is encoded by the EMCN gene. Endomucin is a marker for endothelial cells and hematopoietic stem cells.
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Within Vinony's link graph, EMCN is referenced by 3 other articles, and connects out to PubMed, human chromosome 4 and Ensembl genome database project.
It is catalogued under the topic Genes on human chromosome 4.
Its subject is documented across 7 Wikipedia language editions.
Gene data
EMCN- Name
- endomucin
- Type
- protein-coding
- Position
- 100,364,873–100,880,126 (−)
- Aliases
- EMCN2, MUC14
- Ensembl
- ENSG00000164035
- RefSeq RNA
- NM_001159694.2, NM_016242.4, XM_011532024.4, XM_017008290.2, XM_054350176.1
- RefSeq protein
- NP_001153166.1, NP_057326.2, XP_011530326.1, XP_016863779.1, XP_054206151.1
EMCN is a mucin-like sialoglycoprotein that interferes with the assembly of focal adhesion complexes and inhibits interaction between cells and the extracellular matrix (Kinoshita et al., 2001 [PubMed 11418125]).[supplied by OMIM, Mar 2008].
Gene Ontology
Molecular function
Cellular component
via MyGene.info
Gene · Ensembl
endomucin
- Symbol
- EMCN
- Biotype
- Protein coding
- Organism
- Homo sapiens
- Location
- 4:100,364,873-100,880,126
- Strand
- Reverse (−)
- Assembly
- GRCh38
via Ensembl · EMBL-EBI
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- gene
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- HomoloGene ID
- 9438
- found in taxon
- Homo sapiens
- exact match
- identifiers.org/ncbigene/51705
- genomic start
- 101316498
- chromosome
- human chromosome 4
- cytogenetic location
- 4q24
- genomic end
- 101801283
- expressed in
- gallbladder
Sources (4)
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Encyclopedic overview
3 sectionsContents
- Function
- References
- Further reading
Endomucin is a protein that in humans is encoded by the EMCN gene. Endomucin is a marker for endothelial cells and hematopoietic stem cells.
== Function ==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “EMCN” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.