Equilibrative nucleoside transporter 2

Equilibrative nucleoside transporter 2 (ENT2) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SLC29A2 gene.

SLC29A2
Identifiers
Aliases	SLC29A2, DER12, ENT2, HNP36, Equilibrative nucleoside transporter 2, solute carrier family 29 member 2
External IDs	OMIM: 602110; MGI: 1345278; HomoloGene: 37493; GeneCards: SLC29A2; OMA:SLC29A2 - orthologs
Gene location (Human) Chr. Chromosome 11 (human) Band 11q13.2 Start 66,362,521 bp End 66,372,214 bp
Gene location (Mouse) Chr. Chromosome 19 (mouse) Band 19|19 A Start 5,023,860 bp End 5,031,972 bp
RNA expression pattern Bgee Human Mouse (ortholog) Top expressed in gastrocnemius muscle muscle of thigh apex of heart mucosa of transverse colon right hemisphere of cerebellum right auricle body of tongue vastus lateralis muscle skeletal muscle tissue Skeletal muscle tissue of rectus abdominis Top expressed in neural layer of retina yolk sac tail of embryo genital tubercle embryo embryo epiblast superior frontal gyrus muscle of thigh dentate gyrus of hippocampal formation granule cell More reference expression data BioGPS More reference expression data
Gene ontology Molecular function nucleoside transmembrane transporter activity Cellular component integral component of membrane plasma membrane basolateral plasma membrane integral component of plasma membrane nuclear membrane nucleolus membrane nucleus presynapse Biological process nucleoside transport cell population proliferation nucleoside transmembrane transport nucleobase-containing compound metabolic process adenine transport guanine transport uridine transport hypoxanthine transport thymine transport neurotransmitter reuptake Sources:Amigo / QuickGO
Orthologs Species Human Mouse Entrez 3177 13340 Ensembl ENSG00000174669 ENSMUSG00000024891 UniProt Q14542 Q61672 RefSeq (mRNA) NM_001300868 NM_001300869 NM_001532 NM_007854 RefSeq (protein) NP_001287797 NP_001287798 NP_001523 NP_031880 Location (UCSC) Chr 11: 66.36 – 66.37 Mb Chr 19: 5.02 – 5.03 Mb PubMed search
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See also

• Solute carrier family
• Equilibrative nucleoside transporters
• Nucleoside transporters

Further reading

• Baldwin SA, Beal PR, Yao SY, et al. (2004). "The equilibrative nucleoside transporter family, SLC29". Pflügers Arch. 447 (5): 735–43. doi:10.1007/s00424-003-1103-2. PMID 12838422. S2CID 8817821.
• Mangravite LM, Badagnani I, Giacomini KM (2004). "Nucleoside transporters in the disposition and targeting of nucleoside analogs in the kidney". Eur. J. Pharmacol. 479 (1–3): 269–81. doi:10.1016/j.ejphar.2003.08.076. PMID 14612157.
• Williams JB, Lanahan AA (1995). "A mammalian delayed-early response gene encodes HNP36, a novel, conserved nucleolar protein". Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 213 (1): 325–33. doi:10.1006/bbrc.1995.2133. PMID 7639753.
• Griffiths M, Yao SY, Abidi F, et al. (1998). "Molecular cloning and characterization of a nitrobenzylthioinosine-insensitive (ei) equilibrative nucleoside transporter from human placenta". Biochem. J. 328 (3): 739–43. doi:10.1042/bj3280739. PMC 1218980. PMID 9396714.
• Yao SY, Ng AM, Vickers MF, et al. (2002). "Functional and molecular characterization of nucleobase transport by recombinant human and rat equilibrative nucleoside transporters 1 and 2. Chimeric constructs reveal a role for the ENT2 helix 5-6 region in nucleobase translocation". J. Biol. Chem. 277 (28): 24938–48. doi:10.1074/jbc.M200966200. PMID 12006583.
• Molina-Arcas M, Bellosillo B, Casado FJ, et al. (2003). "Fludarabine uptake mechanisms in B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia". Blood. 101 (6): 2328–34. doi:10.1182/blood-2002-07-2236. PMID 12411296.
• Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH, et al. (2003). "Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99 (26): 16899–903. Bibcode:2002PNAS...9916899M. doi:10.1073/pnas.242603899. PMC 139241. PMID 12477932.
• Mangravite LM, Xiao G, Giacomini KM (2003). "Localization of human equilibrative nucleoside transporters, hENT1 and hENT2, in renal epithelial cells". Am. J. Physiol. Renal Physiol. 284 (5): F902–10. doi:10.1152/ajprenal.00215.2002. PMID 12527552.
• Ward JL, Leung GP, Toan SV, Tse CM (2003). "Functional analysis of site-directed glycosylation mutants of the human equilibrative nucleoside transporter-2". Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 411 (1): 19–26. doi:10.1016/S0003-9861(02)00718-X. PMID 12590919.
• Szkotak AJ, Ng AM, Man SF, et al. (2003). "Coupling of CFTR-mediated anion secretion to nucleoside transporters and adenosine homeostasis in Calu-3 cells". J. Membr. Biol. 192 (3): 169–79. doi:10.1007/s00232-002-1073-x. PMID 12820662. S2CID 23060872.
• Ota T, Suzuki Y, Nishikawa T, et al. (2004). "Complete sequencing and characterization of 21,243 full-length human cDNAs". Nat. Genet. 36 (1): 40–5. doi:10.1038/ng1285. PMID 14702039.
• Farré X, Guillén-Gómez E, Sánchez L, et al. (2004). "Expression of the nucleoside-derived drug transporters hCNT1, hENT1 and hENT2 in gynecologic tumors". Int. J. Cancer. 112 (6): 959–66. doi:10.1002/ijc.20524. PMID 15386342. S2CID 33828164.
• Gerhard DS, Wagner L, Feingold EA, et al. (2004). "The status, quality, and expansion of the NIH full-length cDNA project: the Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC)". Genome Res. 14 (10B): 2121–7. doi:10.1101/gr.2596504. PMC 528928. PMID 15489334.
• Visser F, Zhang J, Raborn RT, et al. (2005). "Residue 33 of human equilibrative nucleoside transporter 2 is a functionally important component of both the dipyridamole and nucleoside binding sites". Mol. Pharmacol. 67 (4): 1291–8. doi:10.1124/mol.104.005884. PMID 15644498. S2CID 22594104.
• Visser F, Baldwin SA, Isaac RE, et al. (2005). "Identification and mutational analysis of amino acid residues involved in dipyridamole interactions with human and Caenorhabditis elegans equilibrative nucleoside transporters". J. Biol. Chem. 280 (12): 11025–34. doi:10.1074/jbc.M410348200. PMID 15649894.
• Owen RP, Lagpacan LL, Taylor TR, et al. (2006). "Functional characterization and haplotype analysis of polymorphisms in the human equilibrative nucleoside transporter, ENT2". Drug Metab. Dispos. 34 (1): 12–5. doi:10.1124/dmd.105.006270. PMID 16214850. S2CID 6396393.

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