ID:ITA2_HUMAN DESCRIPTION: RecName: Full=Integrin alpha-2; AltName: Full=CD49 antigen-like family member B; AltName: Full=Collagen receptor; AltName: Full=Platelet membrane glycoprotein Ia; Short=GPIa; AltName: Full=VLA-2 subunit alpha; AltName: CD_antigen=CD49b; Flags: Precursor; FUNCTION: Integrin alpha-2/beta-1 is a receptor for laminin, collagen, collagen C-propeptides, fibronectin and E-cadherin. It recognizes the proline-hydroxylated sequence G-F-P-G-E-R in collagen. It is responsible for adhesion of platelets and other cells to collagens, modulation of collagen and collagenase gene expression, force generation and organization of newly synthesized extracellular matrix. SUBUNIT: Heterodimer of an alpha and a beta subunit. Alpha-2 associates with beta-1. Interacts with HPS5 and RAB21. Binds to human echoviruses 1 and 8 capsid proteins and acts as a receptor for these viruses. Interacts (via ITAG2 I-domain) with rotavirus A VP4; this interaction only occurs in rotavirus integrin-dependent strains, for which ITGA2 acts as a receptor. INTERACTION: P05556:ITGB1; NbExp=3; IntAct=EBI-702960, EBI-703066; P35282:Rab21 (xeno); NbExp=7; IntAct=EBI-702960, EBI-1993555; Q9H0F6:SHARPIN; NbExp=5; IntAct=EBI-702960, EBI-3942966; SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: Membrane; Single-pass type I membrane protein. DOMAIN: The integrin I-domain (insert) is a VWFA domain. Integrins with I-domains do not undergo protease cleavage. POLYMORPHISM: Position 534 is associated with platelet-specific alloantigen HPA-5 (Br). HPA-5A/Br(a) has Lys-534 and HPA-5B/Br(b) has Glu-534. HPA-5B is involved in neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia (NAIT or NATP). The Lys-534-Glu polymorphism may play a role in coronary artery disease (CAD). SIMILARITY: Belongs to the integrin alpha chain family. SIMILARITY: Contains 7 FG-GAP repeats. SIMILARITY: Contains 1 VWFA domain. WEB RESOURCE: Name=GeneReviews; URL="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/GeneTests/lab/gene/ITGA2"; WEB RESOURCE: Name=SeattleSNPs; URL="http://pga.gs.washington.edu/data/itga2/";
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.
Pfam Domains: PF00092 - von Willebrand factor type A domain PF00357 - Integrin alpha cytoplasmic region PF01839 - FG-GAP repeat PF08441 - Integrin alpha PF13519 - von Willebrand factor type A domain
ModBase Predicted Comparative 3D Structure on P17301
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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.