CAV2

The protein encoded by this gene is a major component of the inner surface of caveolae, small invaginations of the plasma membrane, and is involved in essential cellular functions, including signal transduction, lipid metabolism, cellular growth control and apoptosis. This protein may function as a tumor suppressor. This gene and related family member (CAV1) are located next to each other on chromosome 7, and express colocalizing proteins that form a stable hetero-oligomeric complex. Alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been identified for this gene. Additional isoforms resulting from the use of alternate in-frame translation initiation codons have also been described, and shown to have preferential localization in the cell (PMID:11238462). [provided by RefSeq, May 2011]

Description

Caveolin 2

Tissue specificity

Tissue enhanced (adipose tissue)

Subcell location

Vesicles

Predicted location

Intracellular, Membrane

Protein family

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

Chromosome

7 (116287380 - 116508541)

Ensembl ID

ENSG00000105971  (ver. 103.38)

Orthologs

Mouse Cav2: ENSMUSG00000000058

UniProt

P51636

neXtProt

NX_P51636

Human splice variants
Mouse splice variants

Protein structure