PDCD6, Official Symbol PDCD6provided by HGNC Official Full Name programmed cell death 6provided by HGNC Primary source HGNC:HGNC:8765 See related Ensembl:ENSG00000249915 MIM:601057; AllianceGenome:HGNC:8765 Gene type protein coding RefSeq status REVIEWED Organism Homo sapiens Lineage Eukaryota; Metazoa; Chordata; Craniata; Vertebrata; Euteleostomi; Mammalia; Eutheria; Euarchontoglires; Primates; Haplorrhini; Catarrhini; Hominidae; Homo Also known as ALG2; ALG-2; PEF1B Summary This gene encodes a calcium-binding protein belonging to the penta-EF-hand protein family. Calcium binding is important for homodimerization and for conformational changes required for binding to other protein partners. This gene product participates in T cell receptor-, Fas-, and glucocorticoid-induced programmed cell death. In mice deficient for this gene product, however, apoptosis was not blocked suggesting this gene product is functionally redundant. Alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding multiple isoforms have been observed for this gene, and a pseudogene of this gene is also located on the short arm of chromosome 5. [provided by RefSeq, May 2012] Annotation information Note: ALG2 (Gene ID: 85365) and PDCD6 (Gene ID: 10016) share the ALG2 symbol/alias in common. ALG2 is a widely used alternative name for programmed cell death 6 (PDCD6), whose synonym is apoptosis-linked gene-2. This can be confused with the official symbol for ALG2, alpha-1,3/1,6-mannosyltransferase (ALG2). [31 May 2018] Expression Ubiquitous expression in colon (RPKM 23.5), adrenal (RPKM 21.4) and 25 other tissues See more Orthologs mouse all