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MBNL2

Muscleblind-like protein 2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the MBNL2 gene.[1][2]

This gene encodes a C3H-type zinc finger protein, which is similar to the Drosophila melanogaster muscleblind B protein. Drosophila muscleblind is a gene required for photoreceptor differentiation. Several alternatively spliced transcript variants have been described but the full-length natures of only some have been determined.[2]

References

  1. Fardaei M, Rogers MT, Thorpe HM, Larkin K, Hamshere MG, Harper PS, Brook JD (Apr 2002). “Three proteins, MBNL, MBLL and MBXL, co-localize in vivo with nuclear foci of expanded-repeat transcripts in DM1 and DM2 cells”. Hum Mol Genet. 11 (7): 805–14. doi:10.1093/hmg/11.7.805. PMID 11929853.
  2. 2.0 2.1 “Entrez Gene: MBNL2 muscleblind-like 2 (Drosophila)”.

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