Wnt2 Wnt family member 2 [Rattus norvegicus (Norway rat)] - Gene

Summary

Official Symbol: Wnt2provided by RGD
Official Full Name: Wnt family member 2provided by RGD
Primary source: RGD:621346
See related: EnsemblRapid:ENSRNOG00000089988 AllianceGenome:RGD:621346
Gene type: protein coding
RefSeq status: VALIDATED
Organism: Rattus norvegicus
Lineage: Eukaryota; Metazoa; Chordata; Craniata; Vertebrata; Euteleostomi; Mammalia; Eutheria; Euarchontoglires; Glires; Rodentia; Myomorpha; Muroidea; Muridae; Murinae; Rattus
Also known as: Wnt
Summary: Predicted to enable cytokine activity and frizzled binding activity. Involved in lung development and positive regulation of endothelial cell proliferation. Predicted to be located in collagen-containing extracellular matrix; cytoplasm; and extracellular region. Predicted to be active in extracellular space. Biomarker of visual epilepsy. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in breast carcinoma; hepatocellular carcinoma; and urinary system cancer. Orthologous to human WNT2 (Wnt family member 2). [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Dec 2024]
Expression: Biased expression in Uterus (RPKM 59.5), Lung (RPKM 52.3) and 8 other tissues See more
Orthologs: human mouse all
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Genomic context

Location:: 4q22

Exon count:: 5

Annotation release	Status	Assembly	Chr	Location
RS_2024_02	current	GRCr8 (GCF_036323735.1)	4	NC_086022.1 (47294300..47340284, complement)
RS_2023_06	previous assembly	mRatBN7.2 (GCF_015227675.2)	4	NC_051339.1 (46328408..46374673, complement)
106	previous assembly	Rnor_6.0 (GCF_000001895.5)	4	NC_005103.4 (45286845..45332899, complement)

Chromosome 4 - NC_086022.1 Genomic Context describing neighboring genes

Genomic regions, transcripts, and products

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Genomic Sequence:

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Expression

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Project title: A rat RNA-Seq transcriptomic BodyMap across 11 organs and 4 developmental stages
Description: 320 RNA samples isolated from 11 organs (adrenal gland, brain, heart, kidney, liver, lung, muscle, spleen, thymus, and testes or uterus) from both sexes of Fischer 344 rats across four developmental stages (2-, 6-, 21-, and 104-weeks-old)
BioProject: PRJNA238328
Publication: PMID 24510058
Analysis date: Mon Jun 6 17:44:12 2016

Bibliography

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GeneRIFs: Gene References Into Functions

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Methotrexate mediates the integrity of intestinal stem cells partly through nitric oxide-dependent Wnt/beta-catenin signaling in methotrexate-induced rat ileal mucositis.
Title: Methotrexate mediates the integrity of intestinal stem cells partly through nitric oxide-dependent Wnt/β-catenin signaling in methotrexate-induced rat ileal mucositis.
Downregulation of miR-383 reduces depression-like behavior through targeting Wnt family member 2 (Wnt2) in rats.
Title: Downregulation of miR-383 reduces depression-like behavior through targeting Wnt family member 2 (Wnt2) in rats.
Collectively, these data reveal that low-affinity nerve growth factor receptor (LNGFR) targets the Wnt/beta-catenin pathway and positively regulates ectomesenchymal stem cells osteogenic differentiation, suggesting that Wnt/beta-catenin pathway may be involved in the development of teeth.
Title: LNGFR targets the Wnt/β-catenin pathway and promotes the osteogenic differentiation in rat ectomesenchymal stem cells.
Frizzled-9 is activated by Wnt-2 and functions in Wnt/beta -catenin signaling.
Title: Frizzled-9 is activated by Wnt-2 and functions in Wnt/beta -catenin signaling.
In conclusion, naringin could prevent progress of disuse osteoporosis in rats, which may be mediated by increased periostin expression and subsequently inhibition of sclerostin and activation of Wnt/beta-catenin signaling pathways.
Title: Involvement of periostin-sclerostin-Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway in the prevention of neurectomy-induced bone loss by naringin.
When the Wnt/beta-catenin pathway was activated by LiCl, the expression of RANKL was significantly increased.
Title: Implication of receptor activator of NF-κB ligand in Wnt/β-catenin pathway promoting osteoblast-like cell differentiation.
Wnt/beta-catenin signaling could induce mesenchymal stem cells aging through promoting the intracellular production of ROS, and ROS may be the main mediators of MSC aging induced by excessive activation of Wnt/beta-catenin signaling.
Title: Wnt/β-catenin signaling induces the aging of mesenchymal stem cells through promoting the ROS production.
Wnt2 overexpression in DC3 granulosa cells promotes cytosolic and nuclear accumulation of beta-catenin (CTNNB1), but does not stimulate CTNNB1/TCF-dependent (pGL3-OT) transcriptional activity
Title: Characterization of Wnt2 overexpression in a rat granulosa cell line (DC3): effects on CTNNB1 activation.
The activation of Wnt/beta-catenin signaling transduction pathway might be one of the reasons for rat hepatocarcinogenesis.
Title: [Role of Wnt/beta-catenin signaling transduction pathway in rat hepatocarcinogenesis].
Wnt2 is an autocrine growth and differentiation factor specific for hepatic sinusoidal endothelial cells that synergizes with the VEGF signaling pathway to exert its effects.
Title: Wnt2 acts as a cell type-specific, autocrine growth factor in rat hepatic sinusoidal endothelial cells cross-stimulating the VEGF pathway.

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General gene information

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Markers

RH130031 (e-PCR)
- UniSTS:213319

RH141342 (e-PCR)
- UniSTS:223338

Wnt2 (e-PCR), detects polymorphism
- UniSTS:254326

Wnt2 (e-PCR), detects polymorphism
- UniSTS:516491

G49397 (e-PCR)
- UniSTS:109208

REN63976 (e-PCR)
- UniSTS:388776

Gene Ontology Provided by RGD

Function	Evidence Code	Pubs
enables cytokine activity	ISO Inferred from Sequence Orthology more info
enables frizzled binding	ISO Inferred from Sequence Orthology more info
enables receptor ligand activity	ISO Inferred from Sequence Orthology more info

Process	Evidence Code	Pubs
acts_upstream_of_or_within Wnt signaling pathway	ISO Inferred from Sequence Orthology more info
acts_upstream_of_or_within atrial cardiac muscle tissue morphogenesis	ISO Inferred from Sequence Orthology more info
acts_upstream_of_or_within canonical Wnt signaling pathway	ISO Inferred from Sequence Orthology more info
involved_in canonical Wnt signaling pathway	ISO Inferred from Sequence Orthology more info
acts_upstream_of_or_within cardiac epithelial to mesenchymal transition	ISO Inferred from Sequence Orthology more info
acts_upstream_of cardiac muscle cell proliferation	ISO Inferred from Sequence Orthology more info
involved_in cell proliferation in midbrain	ISO Inferred from Sequence Orthology more info
involved_in cell-cell signaling	ISO Inferred from Sequence Orthology more info
involved_in cellular response to transforming growth factor beta stimulus	ISO Inferred from Sequence Orthology more info
acts_upstream_of epithelial cell proliferation	ISO Inferred from Sequence Orthology more info
acts_upstream_of epithelial cell proliferation involved in lung morphogenesis	ISO Inferred from Sequence Orthology more info
acts_upstream_of_or_within labyrinthine layer blood vessel development	ISO Inferred from Sequence Orthology more info
involved_in lung development	IEP Inferred from Expression Pattern more info	PubMed
acts_upstream_of_or_within lung induction	ISO Inferred from Sequence Orthology more info
involved_in mammary gland epithelium development	ISO Inferred from Sequence Orthology more info
acts_upstream_of mesenchymal cell proliferation	ISO Inferred from Sequence Orthology more info
involved_in midbrain dopaminergic neuron differentiation	ISO Inferred from Sequence Orthology more info
involved_in positive regulation of DNA-binding transcription factor activity	ISO Inferred from Sequence Orthology more info
acts_upstream_of_or_within positive regulation of cardiac muscle cell proliferation	ISO Inferred from Sequence Orthology more info
involved_in positive regulation of cell population proliferation	ISO Inferred from Sequence Orthology more info
involved_in positive regulation of endothelial cell proliferation	IMP Inferred from Mutant Phenotype more info	PubMed
acts_upstream_of_or_within positive regulation of epithelial cell proliferation	ISO Inferred from Sequence Orthology more info
acts_upstream_of_or_within positive regulation of epithelial cell proliferation involved in lung morphogenesis	ISO Inferred from Sequence Orthology more info
involved_in positive regulation of fibroblast proliferation	ISO Inferred from Sequence Orthology more info
acts_upstream_of_or_within positive regulation of mesenchymal cell proliferation	ISO Inferred from Sequence Orthology more info
involved_in positive regulation of neurogenesis	ISO Inferred from Sequence Orthology more info
acts_upstream_of_or_within positive regulation of transcription by RNA polymerase II	ISO Inferred from Sequence Orthology more info
involved_in positive regulation of transcription by RNA polymerase II	ISO Inferred from Sequence Orthology more info

Component	Evidence Code	Pubs
located_in collagen-containing extracellular matrix	ISO Inferred from Sequence Orthology more info
located_in cytoplasm	ISO Inferred from Sequence Orthology more info
located_in extracellular region	ISO Inferred from Sequence Orthology more info

General protein information

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Preferred Names: protein Wnt-2

Names: wingless-related MMTV integration site 2; wingless-type MMTV integration site 2; wingless-type MMTV integration site family member 2

NCBI Reference Sequences (RefSeq)

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RefSeqs maintained independently of Annotated Genomes

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These reference sequences are curated independently of the genome annotation cycle, so their versions may not match the RefSeq versions in the current genome build. Identify version mismatches by comparing the version of the RefSeq in this section to the one reported in Genomic regions, transcripts, and products above.