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Facts about WAS protein family homolog 2.
Its assembly in the WASH core complex appears to inhibit its NPF activity and through WASHC2 is required for its membrane targeting. Involved in transferrin receptor recycling.
| Human | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | WASH2P |
| Uniprot: | Q6VEQ5 |
| Entrez: | 375260 |

| Belongs to: |
|---|
| WASH1 family |

WAS protein family homolog 2
Mass (kDA):
50.312 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 2q14.1 |
| Sequence: | 2; NC_000002.12 (113583653..113599037) |
Early endosome membrane. Recycling endosome membrane. Late endosome. Cytoplasmic vesicle, autophagosome. Cytoplasm, cytoskeleton, microtubule organizing center, centrosome, centriole. Localization to the endosome membrane is mediated via its interaction with WASHC2.


PMID: 15233989 by Wong A., et al. Diverse fates of paralogs following segmental duplication of telomeric genes.
PMID: 10655549 by Ciccodicola A., et al. Differentially regulated and evolved genes in the fully sequenced Xq/Yq pseudoautosomal region.