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Caprin-2

protein-coding gene in the species Homo sapiens

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ18045888 ↗
Source-derived summary

Caprin-2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the gene CAPRIN2.

Caprin-2 may be involved in the transitioning of erythroblasts from a highly proliferative state to a terminal phase of differentiation. High level expression of the encoded protein can lead to apoptosis. Several transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been found for CAPRIN2.

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External links

Human CAPRIN2 genome location and CAPRIN2 gene details page in the UCSC Genome Browser.

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This entry incorporates text from “Caprin-2” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.