LGMN

LGMN
Available structures
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Identifiers
Aliases LGMN, AEP, LGMN1, PRSC1, legumain
External IDs MGI: 1330838 HomoloGene: 38075 GeneCards: LGMN
RNA expression pattern
More reference expression data
Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez

5641

19141

Ensembl

ENSG00000100600

ENSMUSG00000021190

UniProt

Q99538

O89017

RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_001008530
NM_005606

NM_011175

RefSeq (protein)

NP_001008530.1
NP_005597.3

NP_035305.1

Location (UCSC) Chr 14: 92.7 – 92.75 Mb Chr 12: 102.39 – 102.44 Mb
PubMed search [1] [2]
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Legumain is a protein that in humans is encoded by the LGMN gene.[3][4][5]

This gene encodes a cysteine protease, legumain, that has a strict specificity for hydrolysis of asparaginyl bonds. This enzyme may be involved in the processing of bacterial peptides and endogenous proteins for MHC class II presentation in the lysosomal/endosomal systems. Enzyme activation is triggered by acidic pH and appears to be autocatalytic. Protein expression occurs after monocytes differentiate into dendritic cells. A fully mature, active enzyme is produced following lipopolysaccharide expression in mature dendritic cells. Overexpression of this gene may be associated with the majority of solid tumor types. This gene has a pseudogene on chromosome 13. Several alternatively spliced transcript variants have been described, but the biological validity of only two has been determined. These two variants encode the same isoform.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Human PubMed Reference:".
  2. ↑ "Mouse PubMed Reference:".
  3. ↑ Tanaka T, Inazawa J, Nakamura Y (Dec 1996). "Molecular cloning of a human cDNA encoding putative cysteine protease (PRSC1) and its chromosome assignment to 14q32.1". Cytogenet Cell Genet. 74 (1–2): 120–3. doi:10.1159/000134397. PMID 8893817.
  4. ↑ Chen JM, Dando PM, Rawlings ND, Brown MA, Young NE, Stevens RA, Hewitt E, Watts C, Barrett AJ (Apr 1997). "Cloning, isolation, and characterization of mammalian legumain, an asparaginyl endopeptidase". J Biol Chem. 272 (12): 8090–8. doi:10.1074/jbc.272.12.8090. PMID 9065484.
  5. 1 2 "Entrez Gene: LGMN legumain".

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