ID:CTNA2_HUMAN DESCRIPTION: RecName: Full=Catenin alpha-2; AltName: Full=Alpha N-catenin; AltName: Full=Alpha-catenin-related protein; FUNCTION: May function as a linker between cadherin adhesion receptors and the cytoskeleton to regulate cell-cell adhesion and differentiation in the nervous system. Regulates morphological plasticity of synapses and cerebellar and hippocampal lamination during development. Functions in the control of startle modulation (By similarity). SUBUNIT: Interacts with ZNF639. SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: Cytoplasm. Cytoplasm, cytoskeleton (By similarity). Cell junction, adherens junction (By similarity). Cell membrane; Peripheral membrane protein; Cytoplasmic side (By similarity). Cell projection, axon (By similarity). Note=Recruited to the nucleus upon ZNF639 overexpression. SIMILARITY: Belongs to the vinculin/alpha-catenin family.
The RNAfold program from the Vienna RNA Package is used to perform the secondary structure predictions and folding calculations. The estimated folding energy is in kcal/mol. The more negative the energy, the more secondary structure the RNA is likely to have.
ModBase Predicted Comparative 3D Structure on P26232
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Orthologous Genes in Other Species
Orthologies between human, mouse, and rat are computed by taking the best BLASTP hit, and filtering out non-syntenic hits. For more distant species reciprocal-best BLASTP hits are used. Note that the absence of an ortholog in the table below may reflect incomplete annotations in the other species rather than a true absence of the orthologous gene.
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Common Gene Haplotype Alleles 
