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DYNLL2

Dynein light chain 2, cytoplasmic is a protein that in humans is encoded by the DYNLL2 gene.[1][2]


Interactions

Interactions

DYNLL2 has been shown to interact with DLG4,[3] C12orf40,[4] DLGAP1,[3] MYO5A[3][5] and BMF.[5][6]

References

References

  1. Pfister KK, Fisher EM, Gibbons IR, Hays TS, Holzbaur EL, McIntosh JR, Porter ME, Schroer TA, Vaughan KT, Witman GB, King SM, Vallee RB (November 2005). “Cytoplasmic dynein nomenclature”. J Cell Biol. 171 (3): 411–3. doi:10.1083/jcb.200508078. PMC 2171247. PMID 16260502.
  2. “Entrez Gene: DYNLL2 dynein, light chain, LC8-type 2”.
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Naisbitt, S; Valtschanoff J; Allison D W; Sala C; Kim E; Craig A M; Weinberg R J; Sheng M (June 2000). “Interaction of the postsynaptic density-95/guanylate kinase domain-associated protein complex with a light chain of myosin-V and dynein”. J. Neurosci. UNITED STATES. 20 (12): 4524–34. ISSN 0270-6474. PMID 10844022.
  4. Rolland, Thomas; Taşan, Murat; Charloteaux, Benoit; Pevzner, Samuel J.; Zhong, Quan; Sahni, Nidhi; Yi, Song; Lemmens, Irma; Fontanillo, Celia; Mosca, Roberto; Kamburov, Atanas; Ghiassian, Susan D.; Yang, Xinping; Ghamsari, Lila; Balcha, Dawit; Begg, Bridget E.; Braun, Pascal; Brehme, Marc; Broly, Martin P.; Carvunis, Anne-Ruxandra; Convery-Zupan, Dan; Corominas, Roser; Coulombe-Huntington, Jasmin; Dann, Elizabeth; Dreze, Matija; Dricot, Amélie; Fan, Changyu; Franzosa, Eric; Gebreab, Fana; Gutierrez, Bryan J.; Hardy, Madeleine F.; Jin, Mike; Kang, Shuli; Kiros, Ruth; Lin, Guan Ning; Luck, Katja; MacWilliams, Andrew; Menche, Jörg; Murray, Ryan R.; Palagi, Alexandre; Poulin, Matthew M.; Rambout, Xavier; Rasla, John; Reichert, Patrick; Romero, Viviana; Ruyssinck, Elien; Sahalie, Julie M.; Scholz, Annemarie; Shah, Akash A.; Sharma, Amitabh; Shen, Yun; Spirohn, Kerstin; Tam, Stanley; Tejeda, Alexander O.; Trigg, Shelly A.; Twizere, Jean-Claude; Vega, Kerwin; Walsh, Jennifer; Cusick, Michael E.; Xia, Yu; Barabási, Albert-László; Iakoucheva, Lilia M.; Aloy, Patrick; De Las Rivas, Javier; Tavernier, Jan; Calderwood, Michael A.; Hill, David E.; Hao, Tong; Roth, Frederick P.; Vidal, Marc (November 2014). “A Proteome-Scale Map of the Human Interactome Network”. Cell. 159 (5): 1212–1226. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2014.10.050. PMC 4266588. PMID 25416956.
  5. 5.0 5.1 Puthalakath, H; Villunger A; O’Reilly L A; Beaumont J G; Coultas L; Cheney R E; Huang D C; Strasser A (September 2001). “Bmf: a proapoptotic BH3-only protein regulated by interaction with the myosin V actin motor complex, activated by anoikis”. Science. United States. 293 (5536): 1829–32. doi:10.1126/science.1062257. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 11546872.
  6. Day, Catherine L; Puthalakath Hamsa; Skea Gretchen; Strasser Andreas; Barsukov Igor; Lian Lu-Yun; Huang David C S; Hinds Mark G (February 2004). “Localization of dynein light chains 1 and 2 and their pro-apoptotic ligands”. Biochem. J. England. 377 (Pt 3): 597–605. doi:10.1042/BJ20031251. PMC 1223895. PMID 14561217.
Further reading

Further reading

DYNLL2 associations with risk for generalized anxiety disorder: Donner et al. An Association Analysis of Murine Anxiety Genes in Humans Implicates Novel Candidate Genes for Anxiety Disorders. Biological Psychiatry, 2008; 64 (8): 672 doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2008.06.002



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