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Facts about Insulin-like growth factor II.
Plays a key role in regulating fetoplacental development. IGF-II is influenced by placental lactogen.
| Human | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | IGF2 |
| Uniprot: | P01344 |
| Entrez: | 3481 |

| Belongs to: |
|---|
| insulin family |

C11orf43; chromosome 11 open reading frame 43; FLJ22066; FLJ44734; GRDF; IGF2; IGF-2; IGFII; IGF-II; insulin-like growth factor 2 (somatomedin A); insulin-like growth factor II; insulin-like growth factor type 2; MSA; PEG2; PP9974; somatomedin-A
Mass (kDA):
20.14 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 11p15.5 |
| Sequence: | 11; NC_000011.10 (2129112..2149603, complement) |
Expressed in heart, placenta, lung, liver, muscle, kidney, tongue, limb, eye and pancreas.
Secreted.





PMID: 6382022 by Dull T.J., et al. Insulin-like growth factor II precursor gene organization in relation to insulin gene family.
PMID: 6382021 by Bell G.I., et al. Sequence of a cDNA clone encoding human preproinsulin-like growth factor II.
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