mucosal pentraxin homolog (MPTX, MPTX1)

Structure

belongs to the pentraxin family

Expression

• not expressed in the intestinal tract
• not expressed in the human colon cancer cell lines HT-29 & CaCo-2

Notes

• could be the product of a pseudogene
• much shorter in N- terminus than its rodent counterparts due to a stop codon insertion
• proteomic data suggest expression of protein

More general terms

• uncharacterized protein

Additional terms

• pentraxin-2 (neuronal pentraxin, NPTX)

Database

• UniProt: http://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/A8MV57.html