EIF4E2

Gene Information
  • Official Symbol: EIF4E2
  • Official Name: eukaryotic translation initiation factor 4E family member 2
  • Aliases and Previous Symbols: N/A
  • Entrez ID: 9470
  • UniProt: O60573
  • Interactions: BioGRID
  • PubMed articles: Open PubMed
  • OMIM: Open OMIM
Function Summary
  • Entrez Summary: N/A
  • UniProt Summary: Recognizes and binds the 7-methylguanosine-containing mRNA cap during an early step in the initiation (PubMed:9582349, PubMed:17368478, PubMed:25624349). Acts as a repressor of translation initiation (PubMed:22751931). In contrast to EIF4E, it is unable to bind eIF4G (EIF4G1, EIF4G2 or EIF4G3), suggesting that it acts by competing with EIF4E and block assembly of eIF4F at the cap (By similarity). {ECO:0000250|UniProtKB:Q8BMB3, ECO:0000269|PubMed:17368478, ECO:0000269|PubMed:22751931, ECO:0000269|PubMed:25624349, ECO:0000269|PubMed:9582349}.

Pfam Domains GO Terms


CRISPR Data

Compound Hit Most Correlated Genes in Chemogenomics Tissues where Essential in the Avana Dataset (DepMap 20Q1)

Essentiality in NALM6
  • Essentiality Rank: 2217
  • Expression level (log2 read counts): 5.96

Expression Distribution

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