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MBNL2

protein-coding gene in the species Homo sapiens

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 21, 2025
Entity authorityQ18035072 ↗
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Muscleblind-like protein 2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the MBNL2 gene.

This gene encodes a C3H-type zinc finger protein, which is similar to the Drosophila melanogaster muscleblind B protein. Drosophila muscleblind is a gene required for photoreceptor differentiation. Several alternatively spliced transcript variants have been described but the full-length natures of only some have been determined.

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MBNL2 human gene location in the UCSC Genome Browser.

MBNL2 human gene details in the UCSC Genome Browser.

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This entry incorporates text from “MBNL2” 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.