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Cystatin E/M
Identifiers
Symbol(s) CST6;
External IDs OMIM: 601891 MGI1920970 HomoloGene1011
RNA expression pattern

More reference expression data

Orthologs
Human Mouse
Entrez 1474 73720
Ensembl ENSG00000175315 ENSMUSG00000024846
Uniprot Q15828 n/a
Refseq XM_001129442 (mRNA)
XP_001129442 (protein)
NM_028623 (mRNA)
NP_082899 (protein)
Location Chr 11: 65.54 - 65.54 Mb Chr 19: 5.34 - 5.35 Mb
Pubmed search [1] [2]

Cystatin E/M, also known as CST6, is a human gene. The Human Genome Organisation (HUGO is an organization involved in the Human Genome Project, a project about mapping the human genome The Mouse Genome Informatics (MGI website is run by The Jackson Laboratory. HomoloGene, a tool of the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI is a system for automated detection of homologs (similarity attributable to descent The Entrez Global Query Cross-Database Search System is a powerful Federated search engine or Web portal that allows users to search many discrete Health sciences Ensembl is a joint scientific project between the European Bioinformatics Institute and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, which was launched in 1999 in response to the imminent UniProt is the uni versal prot ein resource a central repository of Protein data created by combining Swiss-Prot, TrEMBL PubMed is a free search engine for accessing the MEDLINE database of citations and abstracts of biomedical research articles History See also History of genetics The existence of genes was first suggested by Gregor Mendel (1822-1884 who in the 1860s studied inheritance [1]

The cystatin superfamily encompasses proteins that contain multiple cystatin-like sequences. Some of the members are active cysteine protease inhibitors, while others have lost or perhaps never acquired this inhibitory activity. There are three inhibitory families in the superfamily, including the type 1 cystatins (stefins), type 2 cystatins and the kininogens. The type 2 cystatin proteins are a class of cysteine proteinase inhibitors found in a variety of human fluids and secretions, where they appear to provide protective functions. This gene encodes a cystatin from the type 2 family, which is down-regulated in metastatic breast tumor cells as compared to primary tumor cells. Loss of expression is likely associated with the progression of a primary tumor to a metastatic phenotype. [1]

References

  1. ^ a b Entrez Gene: CST6 cystatin E/M.

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