OAZ2

OAZ2
Identifiers
Aliases OAZ2, AZ2, ornithine decarboxylase antizyme 2
External IDs MGI: 109492 HomoloGene: 31094 GeneCards: OAZ2
RNA expression pattern


More reference expression data
Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez

4947

18247

Ensembl

ENSG00000180304

ENSMUSG00000040652

UniProt

O95190

O08608

RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_002537
NM_001301302

NM_001301307
NM_010952

RefSeq (protein)

NP_002528.1

NP_035082.1

Location (UCSC) Chr 15: 64.69 – 64.7 Mb Chr 9: 65.67 – 65.69 Mb
PubMed search [1] [2]
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Ornithine decarboxylase antizyme 2 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the OAZ2 gene.[3][4][5]

Ornithine decarboxylase catalyzes the conversion of ornithine to putrescine in the first and apparently rate-limiting step in polyamine biosynthesis. The ornithine decarboxylase antizymes play a role in the regulation of polyamine synthesis by binding to and inhibiting ornithine decarboxylase. Antizyme expression is auto-regulated by polyamine-enhanced translational frameshifting. The antizyme encoded by this gene inhibits ornithine decarboxylase but does not accelerate its degradation.[5]

References

  1. "Human PubMed Reference:".
  2. "Mouse PubMed Reference:".
  3. Ivanov IP, Gesteland RF, Atkins JF (Dec 1998). "A second mammalian antizyme: conservation of programmed ribosomal frameshifting". Genomics. 52 (2): 119–29. doi:10.1006/geno.1998.5434. PMID 9782076.
  4. Zhou J, Atkins JF, Gesteland RF (Jul 1999). "Structure of human ornithine decarboxylase antizyme 2 gene". Gene. 232 (2): 165–71. doi:10.1016/S0378-1119(99)00128-6. PMID 10352227.
  5. 1 2 "Entrez Gene: OAZ2 ornithine decarboxylase antizyme 2".

Further reading


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