GYG2

This gene encodes a member of the the glycogenin family. Glycogenin is a self-glucosylating protein involved in the initiation reactions of glycogen biosynthesis. A gene on chromosome 3 encodes the muscle glycogenin and this X-linked gene encodes the glycogenin mainly present in liver; both are involved in blood glucose homeostasis. This gene has a short version on chromosome Y, which is 3' truncated and can not make a functional protein. Multiple alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been identified. [provided by RefSeq, May 2010]

Description

Glycogenin 2

Tissue specificity

Tissue enriched (adipose tissue)

Subcell location

Nucleoplasm, Nucleoli, Cytosol

Predicted location

Intracellular

Protein family

Enzymes
Mapped to neXtProt
Mapped to UniProt SWISS-PROT
Metabolic proteins
Predicted intracellular proteins
Protein evidence (Ezkurdia et al 2014)
Protein evidence (Kim et al 2014)

Chromosome

X (2828822 - 2882820)

Ensembl ID

ENSG00000056998  (ver. 103.38)

Orthologs

-

UniProt

O15488

neXtProt

NX_O15488

Human splice variants

Protein structure