MAL2 (gene)

Mal, T-cell differentiation protein 2
Identifiers
Symbols	MAL2 ;
External IDs	Template:OMIM5 Template:MGI HomoloGene: 14167
Gene ontology Molecular function Template:GNF GO Cellular component Template:GNF GO Template:GNF GO
RNA expression pattern
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File:PBB GE MAL2 gnf1h01195 at tn.png
More reference expression data
Orthologs
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Species	Human	Mouse
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RefSeq (mRNA)	n/a	n/a
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Mal, T-cell differentiation protein 2, also known as MAL2, is a human gene.

This gene encodes a multispan transmembrane protein belonging to the MAL proteolipid family. The protein is a component of lipid rafts and, in polarized cells, it primarily localizes to endosomal structures beneath the apical membrane. It is required for transcytosis, an intracellular transport pathway used to deliver membrane-bound proteins and exogenous cargos from the basolateral to the apical surface.

Further reading

• Marazuela M, Alonso MA (2004). "Expression of MAL and MAL2, two elements of the protein machinery for raft-mediated transport, in normal and neoplastic human tissue". Histol. Histopathol. 19 (3): 925–33. PMID 15168355.
• Rohan S, Tu JJ, Kao J; et al. (2007). "Gene expression profiling separates chromophobe renal cell carcinoma from oncocytoma and identifies vesicular transport and cell junction proteins as differentially expressed genes". Clin. Cancer Res. 12 (23): 6937–45. doi:10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-06-1268. PMID 17145811.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Barbaric D, Byth K, Dalla-Pozza L, Byrne JA (2007). "Expression of tumor protein D52-like genes in childhood leukemia at diagnosis: clinical and sample considerations". Leuk. Res. 30 (11): 1355–63. doi:10.1016/j.leukres.2006.03.009. PMID 16620967.CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• de Marco MC, Puertollano R, Martínez-Menárguez JA, Alonso MA (2006). "Dynamics of MAL2 during glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored protein transcytotic transport to the apical surface of hepatoma HepG2 cells". Traffic. 7 (1): 61–73. doi:10.1111/j.1600-0854.2005.00361.x. PMID 16445687.CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Rual JF, Venkatesan K, Hao T; et al. (2005). "Towards a proteome-scale map of the human protein-protein interaction network". Nature. 437 (7062): 1173–8. doi:10.1038/nature04209. PMID 16189514.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Gerhard DS, Wagner L, Feingold EA; et al. (2004). "The status, quality, and expansion of the NIH full-length cDNA project: the Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC)". Genome Res. 14 (10B): 2121–7. doi:10.1101/gr.2596504. PMID 15489334.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Llorente A, de Marco MC, Alonso MA (2005). "Caveolin-1 and MAL are located on prostasomes secreted by the prostate cancer PC-3 cell line". J. Cell. Sci. 117 (Pt 22): 5343–51. doi:10.1242/jcs.01420. PMID 15466889.CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Marazuela M, Acevedo A, García-López MA; et al. (2004). "Expression of MAL2, an integral protein component of the machinery for basolateral-to-apical transcytosis, in human epithelia". J. Histochem. Cytochem. 52 (2): 243–52. PMID 14729876.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Ota T, Suzuki Y, Nishikawa T; et al. (2004). "Complete sequencing and characterization of 21,243 full-length human cDNAs". Nat. Genet. 36 (1): 40–5. doi:10.1038/ng1285. PMID 14702039.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Marazuela M, Martín-Belmonte F, García-López MA; et al. (2004). "Expression and distribution of MAL2, an essential element of the machinery for basolateral-to-apical transcytosis, in human thyroid epithelial cells". Endocrinology. 145 (2): 1011–6. doi:10.1210/en.2003-0652. PMID 14576188.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Boutros R, Bailey AM, Wilson SH, Byrne JA (2003). "Alternative splicing as a mechanism for regulating 14-3-3 binding: interactions between hD53 (TPD52L1) and 14-3-3 proteins". J. Mol. Biol. 332 (3): 675–87. PMID 12963375.CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH; et al. (2003). "Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99 (26): 16899–903. doi:10.1073/pnas.242603899. PMID 12477932.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• de Marco MC, Martín-Belmonte F, Kremer L; et al. (2002). "MAL2, a novel raft protein of the MAL family, is an essential component of the machinery for transcytosis in hepatoma HepG2 cells". J. Cell Biol. 159 (1): 37–44. doi:10.1083/jcb.200206033. PMID 12370246.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Wilson SH, Bailey AM, Nourse CR; et al. (2001). "Identification of MAL2, a novel member of the mal proteolipid family, though interactions with TPD52-like proteins in the yeast two-hybrid system". Genomics. 76 (1–3): 81–8. doi:10.1006/geno.2001.6610. PMID 11549320.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)