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Members of the 'frizzled' gene family encode 7-transmembrane domain proteins that are receptors for Wnt signaling proteins. The expression of the FZD2 gene appears to be developmentally regulated, with high levels of expression in fetal kidney and lung and in adult colon and ovary.[3]
↑Zhao Z, Lee CC, Baldini A, Caskey CT (Nov 1995). "A human homologue of the Drosophila polarity gene frizzled has been identified and mapped to 17q21.1". Genomics. 27 (2): 370–3. doi:10.1006/geno.1995.1060. PMID7558010.
↑Sagara N, Toda G, Hirai M, Terada M, Katoh M (Dec 1998). "Molecular cloning, differential expression, and chromosomal localization of human frizzled-1, frizzled-2, and frizzled-7". Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 252 (1): 117–22. doi:10.1006/bbrc.1998.9607. PMID9813155.
"Frizzled Receptors: FZD2". IUPHAR Database of Receptors and Ion Channels. International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology.
Further reading
Wang Y, Macke JP, Abella BS, et al. (1996). "A large family of putative transmembrane receptors homologous to the product of the Drosophila tissue polarity gene frizzled". J. Biol. Chem. 271 (8): 4468–76. doi:10.1074/jbc.271.8.4468. PMID8626800.
Hering H, Sheng M (2002). "Direct interaction of Frizzled-1, -2, -4, and -7 with PDZ domains of PSD-95". FEBS Lett. 521 (1–3): 185–9. doi:10.1016/S0014-5793(02)02831-4. PMID12067714.
Oishi I, Suzuki H, Onishi N, et al. (2004). "The receptor tyrosine kinase Ror2 is involved in non-canonical Wnt5a/JNK signalling pathway". Genes Cells. 8 (7): 645–54. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2443.2003.00662.x. PMID12839624.
Omoto S, Hayashi T, Kitahara K, et al. (2004). "Autosomal dominant familial exudative vitreoretinopathy in two Japanese families with FZD4 mutations (H69Y and C181R)". Ophthalmic Genet. 25 (2): 81–90. doi:10.1080/13816810490514270. PMID15370539.