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Facts about Photoreceptor-specific nuclear receptor.
Binds the promoter region of a number of pole - and cone-specific genes, including rhodopsin, M- and S-opsin and rod-specific phosphodiesterase beta subunit. Enhances rhodopsin expression.
| Human | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | NR2E3 |
| Uniprot: | Q9Y5X4 |
| Entrez: | 10002 |

| Belongs to: |
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| nuclear hormone receptor family |

NR2E3; Nuclear receptor subfamily 2 group E member 3; nuclear receptor subfamily 2, group E, member 3; photoreceptor-specific nuclear receptor; PNR; PNRESCS; rd7; Retina-specific nuclear receptor; RNR; RP37MGC49976
Mass (kDA):
44.692 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 15q23 |
| Sequence: | 15; NC_000015.10 (71810554..71818253) |
Eye specific; found solely in the outer nuclear layer of the adult neurosensory retina, where the nuclei of cone and rod photoreceptors reside.
Nucleus.




PMID: 10220376 by Kobayashi M., et al. Identification of a photoreceptor cell-specific nuclear receptor.
PMID: 10611353 by Chen F., et al. Retina-specific nuclear receptor: a potential regulator of cellular retinaldehyde-binding protein expressed in retinal pigment epithelium and Muller glial cells.