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Facts about Prolactin-2C3.
May play a role during wound healing and in the hair follicle cycle as a growth factor and/or an angiogenesis factor. May play a role in microvilli formation and cell proliferation of neuroblastoma cells.
| Mouse | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | Prl2c3 |
| Uniprot: | P04768 |
| Entrez: | 18812 |

| Belongs to: |
|---|
| somatotropin/prolactin family |

Prolactin-2C3
Mass (kDA):
25.338 kDA

| Mouse | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 13|13 A1 |
| Sequence: | 13; |
Expressed in placenta and hair follicles, with highest expression levels detected in the outer root sheath and no expression detected in bulb (PubMed:11316781). Expressed in placenta, skin wounds, keratinocytes and weakly in embryonic fibroblasts (PubMed:10537154, PubMed:11316781, PubMed:16876275). Expressed in brain, cerebellum and in Neuro-2a cell line (PubMed:16876275). Not detected in liver, kidney, ovary, pituitary gland and brain (PubMed:3859868).

PMID: 3859868 by Linzer D.I.H., et al. Identification of proliferin mRNA and protein in mouse placenta.
PMID: 2790033 by Connor A.M., et al. Characterization of a mouse mitogen-regulated protein/proliferin gene and its promoter: a member of the growth hormone/prolactin gene superfamily.