PSCA (gene)

PSCA
Identifiers
Aliases PSCA, PRO232, prostate stem cell antigen
External IDs MGI: 1919623 HomoloGene: 4150 GeneCards: PSCA
Genetically Related Diseases
duodenal ulcer, urinary bladder cancer[1]
RNA expression pattern
More reference expression data
Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez

8000

72373

Ensembl

ENSG00000167653

ENSMUSG00000022598

UniProt

O43653

P57096

RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_005672

NM_028216

RefSeq (protein)

n/a

n/a

Location (UCSC) Chr 8: 142.67 – 142.68 Mb Chr 15: 74.71 – 74.72 Mb
PubMed search [2] [3]
Wikidata
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Prostate stem cell antigen is a protein that in humans is encoded by the PSCA gene.[4][5]

This gene encodes a glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored cell membrane glycoprotein. In addition to being highly expressed in the prostate it is also expressed in the bladder, placenta, colon, kidney, and stomach. This gene has a nonsynonymous nucleotide polymorphism at its start codon.[5]

Clinical significance

This gene is up-regulated in a large proportion of prostate cancers and is also detected in cancers of the bladder and pancreas.[5]

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Further reading


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