Leucine carboxyl methyltransferase 2 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the LCMT2 gene.[5][6][7]
The protein encoded by this intronless gene belongs to the methyltransferase superfamily and acts as a G(1)/S and G(2)/M phase checkpoint regulator. It has been hypothesized that cigarette smoke-induced oxidative stress and transforming growth factor beta 1 may inhibit cellular proliferation by modulating the expression of this protein.[7]
Further reading
- De Baere I, Derua R, Janssens V, et al. (2000). "Purification of porcine brain protein phosphatase 2A leucine carboxyl methyltransferase and cloning of the human homologue". Biochemistry. 38 (50): 16539–47. doi:10.1021/bi991646a. PMID 10600115.
- Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH, et al. (2003). "Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99 (26): 16899–903. doi:10.1073/pnas.242603899. PMC 139241. PMID 12477932.
- Marwick JA, Kirkham P, Gilmour PS, et al. (2003). "Cigarette smoke-induced oxidative stress and TGF-beta1 increase p21waf1/cip1 expression in alveolar epithelial cells". Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 973: 278–83. doi:10.1111/j.1749-6632.2002.tb04649.x. PMID 12485877.
- Ng CC, Arakawa H, Fukuda S, et al. (2003). "p53RFP, a p53-inducible RING-finger protein, regulates the stability of p21WAF1". Oncogene. 22 (28): 4449–58. doi:10.1038/sj.onc.1206586. PMID 12853982.
- Gerhard DS, Wagner L, Feingold EA, et al. (2004). "The status, quality, and expansion of the NIH full-length cDNA project: the Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC)". Genome Res. 14 (10B): 2121–7. doi:10.1101/gr.2596504. PMC 528928. PMID 15489334.
- Kawamata N, Inagaki N, Mizumura S, et al. (2005). "Methylation status analysis of cell cycle regulatory genes (p16INK4A, p15INK4B, p21Waf1/Cip1, p27Kip1 and p73) in natural killer cell disorders". Eur. J. Haematol. 74 (5): 424–9. doi:10.1111/j.1600-0609.2005.00417.x. PMID 15813917.
- Noma A, Kirino Y, Ikeuchi Y, Suzuki T (2006). "Biosynthesis of wybutosine, a hyper-modified nucleoside in eukaryotic phenylalanine tRNA". EMBO J. 25 (10): 2142–54. doi:10.1038/sj.emboj.7601105. PMC 1462984. PMID 16642040.
- Liu FY, Qi JP, Xu FL, Wu AP (2006). "Clinicopathological and immunohistochemical analysis of gastrointestinal stromal tumor". World J. Gastroenterol. 12 (26): 4161–5. PMID 16830365.
- Moon SK, Choi YH, Kim CH, Choi WS (2006). "p38MAPK mediates benzyl isothiocyanate-induced p21WAF1 expression in vascular smooth muscle cells via the regulation of Sp1". Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 350 (3): 662–8. doi:10.1016/j.bbrc.2006.09.092. PMID 17026958.