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Facts about Heat shock protein beta-2.
| Human | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | HSPB2 |
| Uniprot: | Q16082 |
| Entrez: | 3316 |

| Belongs to: |
|---|
| small heat shock protein (HSP20) family |

10 kDa chaperonin; 10 kDa heat shock protein, mitochondrial; Chaperonin 10 Homolog; Chaperonin 10; CPN10HSP10; Early-pregnancy factor; EPF; GroES; heat shock 10kD protein 1 (chaperonin 10); heat shock 10kDa protein 1 (chaperonin 10); HSP10; HSPE1
Mass (kDA):
20.233 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 11q23.1 |
| Sequence: | 11; NC_000011.10 (111912734..111914093) |
Expressed preferentially in skeletal muscle and heart but not in the lens.
Cytoplasm. Nucleus. Localizes to nuclear foci.





PMID: 9344664 by Iwaki A., et al. Identification and characterization of the gene encoding a new member of the alpha-crystallin/small hsp family, closely linked to the alphaB-crystallin gene in a head-to-head manner.
PMID: 9490724 by Suzuki A., et al. MKBP, a novel member of the small heat shock protein family, binds and activates the myotonic dystrophy protein kinase.