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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