This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website.
- Table of Contents
Facts about Dynein heavy chain 2, axonemal.
Dynein has ATPase activity; the force-producing power stroke is thought to occur on release of ADP. Involved in sperm motility; implicated in sperm flagellar assembly (By similarity).
| Human | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | DNAH2 |
| Uniprot: | Q9P225 |
| Entrez: | 146754 |

| Belongs to: |
|---|
| dynein heavy chain family |

Axonemal Beta Dynein Heavy Chain 2; Ciliary Dynein Heavy Chain 2; DNAHC2; DNHD3; Dynein Heavy Chain Domain 3; Dynein Heavy Chain Domain-Containing Protein 3; Dynein, Axonemal, Heavy Chain 2; KIAA1503
Mass (kDA):
507.698 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 17p13.1 |
| Sequence: | 17; NC_000017.11 (7717744..7833711) |
Expressed primarily in trachea and testis, 2 tissues containing axonemal structures. Also expressed in lung.
Cytoplasm, cytoskeleton, cilium axoneme.


PMID: 9256245 by Chapelin C., et al. Isolation of several human axonemal dynein heavy chain genes: genomic structure of the catalytic site, phylogenetic analysis and chromosomal assignment.
PMID: 20835228 by Sakurai M., et al. Inosine cyanoethylation identifies A-to-I RNA editing sites in the human transcriptome.