Brevican core proteinis aproteinthat in humans is encoded by theBCANgene.[5][6][7]Brevican is a member of thelecticanprotein family.

BCAN
Identifiers
AliasesBCAN,BEHAB, CSPG7, Brevican
External IDsOMIM:600347;MGI:1096385;HomoloGene:7244;GeneCards:BCAN;OMA:BCAN - orthologs
Orthologs
SpeciesHumanMouse
Entrez
Ensembl
UniProt
RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_021948
NM_198427

NM_001109758
NM_007529

RefSeq (protein)

NP_068767
NP_940819

NP_001103228
NP_031555

Location (UCSC)Chr 1: 156.64 – 156.66 MbChr 3: 87.99 – 88 Mb
PubMedsearch[3][4]
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Brevican is localised to the surface ofneuronsin thebrain.[8]In melanocytic cells, BCAN gene expression may be regulated byMITF.[9]

References

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  1. ^abcGRCh38: Ensembl release 89: ENSG00000132692Ensembl,May 2017
  2. ^abcGRCm38: Ensembl release 89: ENSMUSG00000004892Ensembl,May 2017
  3. ^"Human PubMed Reference:".National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
  4. ^"Mouse PubMed Reference:".National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
  5. ^Gary SC, Zerillo CA, Chiang VL, Gaw JU, Gray G, Hockfield S (Oct 2000)."cDNA cloning, chromosomal localization, and expression analysis of human BEHAB/brevican, a brain specific proteoglycan regulated during cortical development and in glioma".Gene.256(1–2): 139–47.doi:10.1016/S0378-1119(00)00362-0.PMID11054543.
  6. ^Nomoto H, Oohashi T, Hirakawa S, Ueki Y, Ohtsuki H, Ninomiya Y (Feb 2002). "Human BRAL1 and BCAN genes that belong to the link-module superfamily are tandemly arranged on chromosome 1q21-23".Acta Medica Okayama.56(1): 25–9.PMID11873941.
  7. ^"Entrez Gene: BCAN brevican".
  8. ^Frischknecht R, Seidenbecher CI (Jul 2012). "Brevican: a key proteoglycan in the perisynaptic extracellular matrix of the brain".The International Journal of Biochemistry & Cell Biology.44(7): 1051–4.doi:10.1016/j.biocel.2012.03.022.PMID22537913.
  9. ^Hoek KS, Schlegel NC, Eichhoff OM, Widmer DS, Praetorius C, Einarsson SO, Valgeirsdottir S, Bergsteinsdottir K, Schepsky A, Dummer R, Steingrimsson E (Dec 2008)."Novel MITF targets identified using a two-step DNA microarray strategy".Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research.21(6): 665–76.doi:10.1111/j.1755-148X.2008.00505.x.PMID19067971.

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