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Bos taurus Protein: MT2
Summary
InnateDB Protein IDBP-683593.2
Last Modified 2014-10-13 [Report errors or provide feedback]
Gene Symbol MT2
Protein Name Metallothionein-2
Synonyms MT-2; MT-II; MT2;
Species Bos taurus
Ensembl Protein ENSBTAP00000034269
InnateDB Gene IDBG-632005 (MT2)
Protein Structure
UniProt Annotation
Function Metallothioneins have a high content of cysteine residues that bind various heavy metals; these proteins are transcriptionally regulated by both heavy metals and glucocorticoids.
Subcellular Localization
Disease Associations
Tissue Specificity
Comments
Interactions
Number of Interactions This gene and/or its encoded proteins are associated with 0 experimentally validated interaction(s) in this database.
Gene Ontology

Molecular Function
Accession GO Term
GO:0008270 zinc ion binding
GO:0046872 metal ion binding
Biological Process
GO:0045926 negative regulation of growth
GO:0071294 cellular response to zinc ion
Cellular Component
GO:0005634 nucleus
GO:0005737 cytoplasm
GO:0048471 perinuclear region of cytoplasm
Protein Structure and Domains
PDB ID
InterPro IPR000006 Metallothionein, vertebrate
IPR003019 Metallothionein superfamily, eukaryotic
IPR017854 Metallothionein domain
PFAM PF00131
PRINTS PR00860
PIRSF
SMART
TIGRFAMs
Post-translational Modifications
Modification
Cross-References
SwissProt P68301
PhosphoSite PhosphoSite-
TrEMBL
UniProt Splice Variant
Entrez Gene 404070
UniGene
RefSeq NP_001068608
HUGO
OMIM
CCDS
HPRD
IMGT
EMBL AJ489256
GenPept CAD33256

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Breuer et al., InnateDB: systems biology of innate immunity and beyond - recent updates and continuing curation. Nucl. Acids Res. (2013) 41 (D1) 

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