mammaglobin-B; lacryglobin; lipophilin-C; mammaglobin-2; secretoglobin family 2A member 1 (SCGB2A1, LIPHC, MGB2, UGB3)

Function

• may bind androgens & other steroids
• may also bind estramustine, a chemotherapeutic agent used for prostate cancer
• may be under transcriptional regulation of steroid hormones
• heterodimer of a lipophilin A & a lipophilin C (mammaglobin B)

Structure

• belongs to the secretoglobin family, lipophilin subfamily

Expression

• expressed in steroid responsive tissues (prostate, testis, uterus, breast & ovary)
• expressed in thymus, trachea, kidney, & salivary gland

More general terms

• secretoglobin

Database

• Entrez gene: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=gene&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=Graphics&list_uids=4246
• Kegg: http://www.genome.jp/dbget-bin/www_bget?hsa:4246
• OMIM: https://mirror.omim.org/entry/604398
• UniProt: http://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/O75556.html