USP2

ubiquitin specific peptidase 2

Summary

This gene encodes a member of the family of de-ubiquitinating enzymes, which belongs to the peptidase C19 superfamily. The encoded protein is a ubiquitin-specific protease which is required for TNF-alpha (tumor necrosis factor alpha) -induced NF-kB (nuclear factor kB) signaling. This protein deubiquitinates polyubiquitinated target proteins such as fatty acid synthase, murine double minute 2 (MDM2), MDM4/MDMX and cyclin D1. MDM2 and MDM4 are negative regulators of the p53 tumor suppressor and cyclin D1 is required for cell cycle G1/S transition. Multiple alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been identified. [provided by RefSeq, Aug 2011]

Known Variants44 total

rsidPosition (GRCh37)AllelesClassClinVar
rs77713136311:119,227,552C/Guncertain significance
rs117490980911:119,227,631C/Tuncertain significance
rs131569503711:119,227,898T/Cuncertain significance
rs249711875411:119,227,907T/Guncertain significance
rs15076873811:119,227,916G/Auncertain significance
rs20175254211:119,227,919A/Gmissense variant
rs195068035711:119,227,965C/Guncertain significance
rs14989842311:119,227,996T/Auncertain significance
rs185841373211:119,228,199T/Cuncertain significance
rs130856255311:119,228,747T/Cuncertain significance
rs118820736911:119,228,866A/Cuncertain significance
rs36916471711:119,229,504G/Auncertain significance
rs76489492211:119,229,530C/Tuncertain significance
rs77659626311:119,229,782C/Tuncertain significance
rs54167370511:119,229,792C/Tuncertain significance
rs37066602711:119,229,959G/Auncertain significance
rs37553915611:119,229,960G/Auncertain significance
rs37478335911:119,230,044T/Cuncertain significance
rs36807955011:119,230,253C/Tlikely benign
rs249713740811:119,230,925C/Guncertain significance
rs219552511:119,235,404C/Tintron variant
rs1089235411:119,238,381T/Cregulatory region variant
rs20056419811:119,243,422C/Tlikely benign
rs77118682411:119,243,445C/Tuncertain significance
rs36989556811:119,243,487G/Auncertain significance
rs3522435611:119,243,502G/Abenign
rs14600591911:119,243,580C/Tuncertain significance
rs19998506911:119,243,595A/Tuncertain significance
rs54198629011:119,243,638G/Auncertain significance
rs126721611911:119,243,641C/Tuncertain significance
rs57253897211:119,243,679A/Cuncertain significance
rs37612950511:119,243,712C/Tuncertain significance
rs76654183511:119,243,842C/Tuncertain significance
rs14242059911:119,243,856C/Tuncertain significance
rs249717793311:119,243,862C/Tuncertain significance
rs19964601611:119,243,875C/Auncertain significance
rs77455533811:119,243,905T/Guncertain significance
rs7946424611:119,243,912C/Tbenign
rs11389355711:119,243,941C/Tuncertain significance
rs13807215511:119,243,957G/Abenign
rs14598719011:119,243,965G/Auncertain significance
rs76717668811:119,244,006C/Tuncertain significance
rs14249669711:119,244,033G/Alikely benign
rs249717959111:119,244,148C/Tuncertain significance

Gene information from NCBI Gene. Variant classifications from ClinVar.