PKP2 Antibody, HRP conjugated

1. Comparative analyses of the influenza-host protein interactomes identified PKP2 as a natural inhibitor of influenza A viruses polymerase complex. PMID: 28169297
2. Results identified common and rare variants within plakophilin 2 protein (PKP2) to be associated with left ventricular mass (LVM). PMID: 29288195
3. Our study describes various clinical parameters in ACM patients and a recessive plakophilin 2 mutation after a limited PKP2 gene sequencing. PMID: 29961461
4. Authors show that the PKP2 gene encoding the desmosomal protein Plakophilin-2 is a novel direct transcriptional target of Wnt/beta-catenin in normal and colon cancer-associated fibroblasts. PMID: 29044515
5. Human iPSC line was generated from patient-specific adipose tissue-derived mesenchymal multipotent stromal cells carrying two mutations in plakophilin-2 (PKP2) gene using non-integrative reprogramming method. PMID: 29034900
6. The rare incidence of PKP2 mutation in sudden unexplained noctural death syndrome (SUNDS, 1%) supports the previous viewpoint that SUNDS is most likely an allelic disorder as Brugada syndrome PMID: 27122407
7. Up-regulation of plakophilin-2 (PKP2) is correlated with the progression of glioma. Study uncovers a potential role for PKP2 in the pathogenic process of glioma, suggesting that PKP2 may be a promising therapeutic target of glioma. PMID: 28124385
8. Screening for CNVs in desmosome genes is useful to identify the genetic basis of disease in clinically suspected ARVC patients. PMID: 28431057
9. a novel homozygous Plakophilin 2-gene mutation has a role in advanced cardiomyopathy PMID: 29253866
10. An intronic mutation of c.2577+1G>T in the PKP2 gene causes a nonsyndromic form of Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy without cutaneous Involvements. PMID: 28523642
11. Data show that fetal pMSCs (mesenchymal stromal cells) expressing the highest levels of desmoglein 2, desmocollin 3 and plakophilin 2, followed by maternal pMSCs, while bmMSCs expressed the lowest levels. PMID: 28154962
12. Results show the involvement of plakophilin 2 protein (PKP2) in two siblings with severe cardiomyopathy with ventricular non compaction. PMID: 27030002
13. PKP2 c.419C>T did not associate with heart failure, arrhythmias, or premature death, with ARVC or HCM/DCM, or with effects in vitro, suggesting that this is not a disease-causing variant. PMID: 26264440
14. Family members - desmosomal mutation carriers who restricted exercise at or below the upper bound of the American Heart Association goal were less likely to be diagnosed and had no Ventricular Tachycardia. PMID: 26321091
15. Extreme variability in clinical penetrance for a splice-site PKP2 mutation was found in a Bangladeshi family. Some family members were affected by arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy, and some are asymptomatic. PMID: 25786693
16. Data suggest juxtamembrane regions/domains of desmocollin-2 (DSC2), plakophilin 2 (PKP2), and plakophilin 3 (PKP3) are involved in desmosome formation in epithelial cells; DSC2 participates in desmosome formation in absence of desmoglein 2 (DSG2). PMID: 25972099
17. Plakofilin2 mutation plays an important role in the pathogenesis of Brugada syndrome. PMID: 25889434
18. PKP2 regulates Wnt activity during adipogenic and cardiomyogenic differentiation in arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy. PMID: 26995964
19. Currently, 13 genes have been associated with the disease but nearly 40 % of clinically diagnosed cases remain without a genetic diagnosis. PMID: 25398255
20. A heterozygous pathogenic variant in the plakophilin-2 (c.2392A>G, p.T798A) gene was found in an arrhythmogenic LV cardiomyopathy patient and his deceased mother who had had arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy affecting both ventricles. PMID: 26260507
21. Six variants of uncertain clinical significance in the PKP2, JUP, and DSG2 genes showed a deleterious effect on mRNA splicing, indicating these are ARVD/C-related pathogenic splice site mutations. PMID: 25087486
22. Exercise test is valuable for the diagnosis of ARVC in patients with PKP2 gene mutation. PMID: 25936878
23. Case Report: PKP2/DSP mutations in patient with Brugada syndrome and ventricular tachycardia. PMID: 25900994
24. The introduction of the PKP2 R735X mutation into mice resulted in an exercise-dependent arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy. PMID: 25857910
25. PKP2 haploinsufficiency contributes to pathogenesis in arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy. PMID: 24704780
26. mutations in PKP2 are associated with a later age of onset of arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy PMID: 24967631
27. PKP2 is a novel activator of the EGFR signaling pathway. PMID: 25113560
28. Missense mutations in plakophilin-2 cause sodium current deficit and associate with a Brugada syndrome phenotype. PMID: 24352520
29. The copy number variations analysis identified a heterozygous deletion of about 122 kb on chromosome 12p11.21, including the entire plakophilin-2 gene and shared by all affected family members. PMID: 23486541
30. Downstream Hippo molecules STE20-like protein kinases 1/2, large tumor suppressor kinases 1/2, and Yes-associated protein (YAP, the effector of the pathway) are phosphorylated, offering novel mechanisms for arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy pathogenesis. PMID: 24276085
31. These data uncover a potential role for PKP2 upstream of beta1 integrin and RhoA in integrating cell-cell and cell-substrate contact signaling in basal keratinocytes. PMID: 23884246
32. Of a total of 715 Sudden cardiac death cases, seven (1.0%) carried one of the ten mutations assayed: three carried KCNH2 R176W, one KCNH2 L552S, two PKP2 Q59L, and one RYR2 R3570W. PMID: 23651034
33. PKP2 gene mutation is associated with arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy in a large Dutch family. PMID: 23270881
34. Results show that PKP2 mutations are insufficient to cause ARVD due to variable expression and incomplete penetrance PMID: 23147395
35. haploinsufficiency is the most likely cause for the genesis of dominant arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy due to mutations in PKP2 PMID: 22781308
36. While many of the reported ARVC mutations are truncating mutations, the possibly damaging variant found in this family, is a missense alteration affecting a highly conserved residue 506 located in exon 7. PMID: 22170284
37. The authors report on a pedigree of cases involving a mutation in the plakophilin 2 gene that was associated with the development of arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy. PMID: 22035158
38. PKP2 mutations are not specific for arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy and may result in sudden unexpected death with negative autopsy. PMID: 22019812
39. PKP2 gene upregulation is associated with bladder cancer invasion. PMID: 22119253
40. PKP2A was shown to be the major isoform expressed in human heart tissue and PKP2B protein was undetectable; results strongly suggest that p.Arg490Trp and other variants located in PKP2 exon 6 may not be disease causing PMID: 21378009
41. Mutant plakophilin-2 proteins were unable to disrupt established desmosomes when expressed in an E-cadherin-expressing epithelial cell model; they were unable to initiate de novo assembly of desmosomes in an N-cadherin-expressing epithelial cell model. PMID: 19533476
42. Studies identified two mutations in DSG2, four in DSC2, two in DSP, four in JUP and seven in PKP2. PMID: 20864495
43. Adherens junctions connecting cardiac myxoma cells show exactly such general acquisition of Pkp2. PMID: 20693980
44. Data suggest that PKP2 may functionally link RhoA- and PKC-dependent pathways to drive actin reorganization. PMID: 20554761
45. Reduced connexin43 expression and localization to the intercalated disk occurs in heterozygous human PKP-2 mutations, potentially explaining the delayed conduction and propensity to develop arrhythmias seen in this disease. PMID: 18662195
46. Fifteen percent of Danish arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy/dysplasia patients carried PKP2 mutations. PMID: 19955750
47. mutations in plakophylin-2 (PKP2) gene in ARVC PMID: 19880068
48. Protein binding and functional characterization of plakophilin 2. Evidence for its diverse roles in desmosomes and beta -catenin signaling PMID: 11790773
49. In 32 of 120 unrelated individuals with ARVC, we identified heterozygous mutations in PKP2, which encodes plakophilin-2, an essential armadillo-repeat protein of the cardiac desmosome. PMID: 15489853
50. mutations in the desmosomal plakophilin-2 gene can cause arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy PMID: 16415378

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HGNC: 9024

OMIM: 602861

KEGG: hsa:5318

STRING: 9606.ENSP00000070846

UniGene: Hs.164384