LGMN

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Legumain is a protein that in humans is encoded by the LGMN gene.

This gene encodes a cysteine protease, legumain, that has a strict specificity for hydrolysis of asparaginyl bonds. This enzyme may be involved in the processing of bacterial peptides and endogenous proteins for MHC class II presentation in the lysosomal/endosomal systems. Enzyme activation is triggered by acidic pH and appears to be autocatalytic. Protein expression occurs after monocytes differentiate into dendritic cells. A fully mature, active enzyme is produced following lipopolysaccharide expression in mature dendritic cells. Overexpression of this gene may be associated with the majority of solid tumor types. This gene has a pseudogene on chromosome 13. Several alternatively spliced transcript variants have been described, but the biological validity of only two has been determined. These two variants encode the same isoform.

Further reading

• Maruyama K, Sugano S (1994). "Oligo-capping: a simple method to replace the cap structure of eukaryotic mRNAs with oligoribonucleotides". Gene. 138 (1–2): 171–4. doi:10.1016/0378-1119(94)90802-8. PMID 8125298.
• Suzuki Y, Yoshitomo-Nakagawa K, Maruyama K, et al. (1997). "Construction and characterization of a full length-enriched and a 5'-end-enriched cDNA library". Gene. 200 (1–2): 149–56. doi:10.1016/S0378-1119(97)00411-3. PMID 9373149.
• Chen JM, Dando PM, Stevens RA, et al. (1998). "Cloning and expression of mouse legumain, a lysosomal endopeptidase". Biochem. J. 335 (Pt 1): 111–7. PMC 1219758. PMID 9742219.
• Halfon S, Patel S, Vega F, et al. (1998). "Autocatalytic activation of human legumain at aspartic acid residues". FEBS Lett. 438 (1–2): 114–8. doi:10.1016/S0014-5793(98)01281-2. PMID 9821970.
• Manoury B, Hewitt EW, Morrice N, et al. (1999). "An asparaginyl endopeptidase processes a microbial antigen for class II MHC presentation". Nature. 396 (6712): 695–9. doi:10.1038/25379. PMID 9872320.
• Chen JM, Rawlings ND, Stevens RA, Barrett AJ (1999). "Identification of the active site of legumain links it to caspases, clostripain and gingipains in a new clan of cysteine endopeptidases". FEBS Lett. 441 (3): 361–5. doi:10.1016/S0014-5793(98)01574-9. PMID 9891971.
• Chen JM, Fortunato M, Barrett AJ (2001). "Activation of human prolegumain by cleavage at a C-terminal asparagine residue". Biochem. J. 352 (2): 327–34. doi:10.1042/bj3520327. PMC 1221463. PMID 11085925.
• Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH, et al. (2003). "Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99 (26): 16899–903. doi:10.1073/pnas.242603899. PMC 139241. PMID 12477932.
• Li DN, Matthews SP, Antoniou AN, et al. (2003). "Multistep autoactivation of asparaginyl endopeptidase in vitro and in vivo". J. Biol. Chem. 278 (40): 38980–90. doi:10.1074/jbc.M305930200. PMID 12860980.
• Burster T, Beck A, Tolosa E, et al. (2004). "Cathepsin G, and not the asparagine-specific endoprotease, controls the processing of myelin basic protein in lysosomes from human B lymphocytes". J. Immunol. 172 (9): 5495–503. doi:10.4049/jimmunol.172.9.5495. PMID 15100291.
• Gerhard DS, Wagner L, Feingold EA, et al. (2004). "The Status, Quality, and Expansion of the NIH Full-Length cDNA Project: The Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC)". Genome Res. 14 (10B): 2121–7. doi:10.1101/gr.2596504. PMC 528928. PMID 15489334.
• Murthy RV, Arbman G, Gao J, et al. (2005). "Legumain expression in relation to clinicopathologic and biological variables in colorectal cancer". Clin. Cancer Res. 11 (6): 2293–9. doi:10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-04-1642. PMID 15788679.
• Oh JH, Yang JO, Hahn Y, et al. (2006). "Transcriptome analysis of human gastric cancer". Mamm. Genome. 16 (12): 942–54. doi:10.1007/s00335-005-0075-2. PMID 16341674.