Background
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Insulin-like growth factor 2 mRNA-binding protein 2 is also known as IGF2 mRNA-binding protein 2, Hepatocellular carcinoma autoantigen p62, IGF-II mRNA-binding protein 2, VICKZ family member 2, IGF2BP2 and IMP2, is a cytoplasm protein which belongs to the RRM IMP/VICKZ family. IGF2BP2 is expressed in oocytes, granulosa cells of small and growing follicles, Leydig cells, spermatogonia and semen (at protein level). Expressed in testicular cancer (at protein level). Expressed weakly in heart, placenta, skeletal muscle, bone marrow, colon, kidney, salivary glands, testis and pancreas. Detected in fetal liver, fetal ovary, gonocytes and interstitial cells of the testis.It functions by binding to the 5' UTR of the insulin-like growth factor 2 (IGF2) mRNA and regulating IGF2 translation. IGF2BP2 / IMP2 may regulate translation of target mRNAs. Genetic variation at the IGF2BP2 gene has been associated with type 2 diabetes (T2D) by genome-wide association studies and by replication analyses.
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