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Tbio
UTS2
Urotensin-2

Protein Summary
Description
Highly potent vasoconstrictor. This gene encodes a mature peptide that is an active cyclic heptapeptide absolutely conserved from lamprey to human. The active peptide acts as a vasoconstrictor and is expressed only in brain tissue. Despite the gene family name similarity, this gene is not homologous to urocortin, a member of the sauvagine/corticotropin-releasing factor/urotensin I family. Most of the proprotein is cleaved to make the mature peptide. Transcript variants encoding different preproprotein isoforms have been described for this gene. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]
Uniprot Accession IDs
Gene Name
Ensembl ID
  • ENST00000054668
  • ENSP00000054668
  • ENSG00000049247
  • ENST00000361696
  • ENSP00000355163

Symbol
  • UII
  • U-II
  • UCN2
  • PRO1068
Illumination Graph
Knowledge Table
Most Knowledge About
Knowledge Value (0 to 1 scale)
biological process
0.96
cell type or tissue
0.76
biological term
0.72
gene perturbation
0.57
tissue
0.52


Protein Classes
IDG Development Level Summary
Tdark

These are targets about which virtually nothing is known. They do not have known drug or small molecule activities
- AND - satisfy two or more of the following criteria:

Pubmed score: 474.53   (req: < 5)
Gene RIFs: 91   (req: <= 3)
Antibodies: 243   (req: <= 50)
Tbio

These targets do not have known drug or small molecule activities
- AND - satisfy two or more of the following criteria:

Pubmed score: 474.53   (req: >= 5)
Gene RIFs: 91   (req: > 3)
Antibodies: 243   (req: > 50)

- OR - satisfy the following criterion:

Gene Ontology Terms: 7
Tchem

Target has at least one ChEMBL compound with an activity cutoff of < 30 nM - AND - satisfies the preceding conditions

Active Ligand: 0
Tclin

Target has at least one approved drug - AND - satisfies the preceding conditions

Active Drug: 0