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GCM2

Chorion-specific transcription factor GCMb is a protein that in humans is encoded by the GCM2 gene.[1][2]

The Drosophila ‘glial cells missing’ (gcm) gene is thought to act as a binary switch between neuronal and glial cell determination. The gcm protein and mammalian gcm homologs contain a conserved N-terminal gcm motif that has DNA-binding activity. See GCM1 (MIM 603715).[supplied by OMIM][2]

References

References

  1. Kanemura Y, Hiraga S, Arita N, Ohnishi T, Izumoto S, Mori K, Matsumura H, Yamasaki M, Fushiki S, Yoshimine T (Feb 1999). “Isolation and expression analysis of a novel human homologue of the Drosophila glial cells missing (gcm) gene”. FEBS Lett. 442 (2–3): 151–6. doi:10.1016/S0014-5793(98)01650-0. PMID 9928992.
  2. 2.0 2.1 “Entrez Gene: GCM2 glial cells missing homolog 2 (Drosophila)”.
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