Biology:CDKN2B

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Short description: Protein-coding gene in the species Homo sapiens


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Cyclin-dependent kinase 4 inhibitor B also known as multiple tumor suppressor 2 (MTS-2) or p15INK4b is a protein that is encoded by the CDKN2B gene in humans.[1][2]

Function

This gene lies adjacent to the tumor suppressor gene CDKN2A in a region that is frequently mutated, deleted, or disregulated in a wide variety of cancer.[3][4][5] This gene encodes a cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor, also known as p15Ink4b protein, which forms a complex with CDK4 or CDK6, and prevents the activation of the CDK kinases by cyclin D, thus the encoded protein functions as a cell growth regulator that inhibits cell cycle G1 progression. The expression of this gene was found to be dramatically induced by TGF beta, which suggested its role in the TGF beta induced growth inhibition. Two alternatively spliced transcripts of this gene encode proteins that share the N-terminal sequence but completely differ in the C-terminus.[2]

Interactions

CDKN2B tumor suppressor gene product p15 has been shown to interact with cyclin-dependent kinase 4.[6][7]

References

  1. "p15INK4B is a potential effector of TGF-beta-induced cell cycle arrest". Nature 371 (6494): 257–61. September 1994. doi:10.1038/371257a0. PMID 8078588. Bibcode1994Natur.371..257H. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 "Entrez Gene: CDKN2B cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor 2B (p15, inhibits CDK4)". https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=gene&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=1030. 
  3. "CDKN2B deletion is essential for pancreatic cancer development instead of unmeaningful co-deletion due to juxtaposition to CDKN2A". Oncogene 37 (1): 128–138. January 2018. doi:10.1038/onc.2017.316. PMID 28892048. 
  4. "Germline Mutations in the CDKN2B Tumor Suppressor Gene Predispose to Renal Cell Carcinoma". Cancer Discovery 5 (7): 723–9. July 2015. doi:10.1158/2159-8290.CD-14-1096. PMID 25873077. 
  5. "Epigenetic silencing of tumour suppressor gene p15 by its antisense RNA". Nature 451 (7175): 202–6. January 2008. doi:10.1038/nature06468. PMID 18185590. Bibcode2008Natur.451..202Y. 
  6. "Towards a proteome-scale map of the human protein-protein interaction network". Nature 437 (7062): 1173–8. October 2005. doi:10.1038/nature04209. PMID 16189514. Bibcode2005Natur.437.1173R. 
  7. "A human protein-protein interaction network: a resource for annotating the proteome". Cell 122 (6): 957–68. September 2005. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2005.08.029. PMID 16169070. 

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