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Facts about Lens fiber membrane intrinsic protein.
May play an essential role in both lens growth and cataractogenesis. .
| Human | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | LIM2 |
| Uniprot: | P55344 |
| Entrez: | 3982 |

| Belongs to: |
|---|
| PMP-22/EMP/MP20 family |

lens fiber membrane intrinsic protein; lens intrinsic membrane protein 2, 19kDa; MP17; MP18; MP19lens intrinsic membrane protein 2 (19kD); MP20
Mass (kDA):
19.674 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 19q13.41 |
| Sequence: | 19; NC_000019.10 (51379909..51387974, complement) |
Eye lens specific.
Membrane; Multi-pass membrane protein.




PMID: 8137630 by Church R.L., et al. The human lens fiber-cell intrinsic membrane protein MP19 gene: isolation and sequence analysis.
PMID: 12107413 by Wistow G., et al. Expressed sequence tag analysis of adult human lens for the NEIBank project: over 2000 non-redundant transcripts, novel genes and splice variants.