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Facts about Prokineticin-2.
Potently contracts gastrointestinal (GI) smooth muscle (By similarity). .
| Mouse | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | Prok2 |
| Uniprot: | Q9QXU7 |
| Entrez: | 50501 |

| Belongs to: |
|---|
| AVIT (prokineticin) family |

BV8Protein Bv8 homolog; KAL4; MIT1; PK2prokineticin-2; prokineticin 2
Mass (kDA):
14.185 kDA

| Mouse | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 6 D3|6 46.29 cM |
| Sequence: | 6; |
Expressed in the SCN and among a few other discrete brain areas, including the islands of Calleja, media l preoptic area of the hypothalamus and the shell of the nucleus accumbens. Highly expressed in testis. In the SCN, expression subjected to high amplitude of circadian oscillation.




PMID: 10580115 by Wechselberger C., et al. The mammalian homologues of frog Bv8 are mainly expressed in spermatocytes.
PMID: 11054548 by Jilek A., et al. Murine Bv8 gene maps near a synteny breakpoint of mouse chromosome 6 and human 3p21.