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Arrestin beta 2

ARRB2
Identifiers
Aliases ARRB2, ARB2, ARR2, BARR2, Arrestin beta 2
External IDs MGI: 99474 HomoloGene: 3183 GeneCards: ARRB2
RNA expression pattern
PBB GE ARRB2 203388 at fs.png
More reference expression data
Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez
Ensembl
UniProt
RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_001271358
NM_001271359
NM_001271360
NM_145429

RefSeq (protein)
Location (UCSC) Chr 17: 4.71 – 4.72 Mb Chr 11: 70.43 – 70.44 Mb
PubMed search

NM_199004
NM_001330064

NM_001271358
NM_001271359
NM_001271360
NM_145429

NP_004304
NP_945355

NP_001258288
NP_001258289
NP_663404

Beta-arrestin-2, also known as arrestin beta-2, is an intracellular protein that in humans is encoded by the ARRB2 gene.

Members of arrestin/beta-arrestin protein family are thought to participate in agonist-mediated desensitization of G protein-coupled receptors and cause specific dampening of cellular responses to stimuli such as hormones, neurotransmitters, or sensory signals, as well as having signalling roles in their own right. Arrestin beta 2, like arrestin beta 1, was shown to inhibit beta-adrenergic receptor function in vitro. It is expressed at high levels in the central nervous system and may play a role in the regulation of synaptic receptors. Besides the brain, a cDNA for arrestin beta 2 was isolated from thyroid gland, and thus it may also be involved in hormone-specific desensitization of TSH receptors. Multiple alternatively spliced transcript variants have been found for this gene, but the full-length nature of some variants has not been defined.


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