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Facts about Tropomyosin beta chain.
Smooth muscle contraction is regulated by interaction with caldesmon. In non-muscle cells is implicated in stabilizing cytoskeleton actin filaments.
| Human | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | TPM2 |
| Uniprot: | P07951 |
| Entrez: | 7169 |

| Belongs to: |
|---|
| tropomyosin family |

distal, type 1; tropomyosin 2 (beta)
Mass (kDA):
32.851 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 9p13.3 |
| Sequence: | 9; NC_000009.12 (35681993..35690056, complement) |
Present in primary breast cancer tissue, absent from normal breast tissue.
Cytoplasm, cytoskeleton. Associates with F-actin stress fibers.




PMID: 3865200 by MacLeod A.R., et al. A muscle-type tropomyosin in human fibroblasts: evidence for expression by an alternative RNA splicing mechanism.
PMID: 3368322 by Widada J.S., et al. Complete nucleotide sequence of the adult skeletal isoform of human skeletal muscle beta-tropomyosin.