Function
(Microbial infection) Acts as a receptor for C.difficile toxin TcdB in the colonic epithelium. TcdB occupies the binding site for Wnt-adducted palmitoleate in frizzled receptors and TcdB-binding prevents Wnt-binding and downstream Wnt signaling.
Biological Context
Subcellular Location: Membrane (Multi-pass membrane protein); Cell membrane (Multi-pass membrane protein)
Tissue Specificity: Widely expressed. In the adult, mainly found in heart, placenta, skeletal muscle, lung, kidney, pancreas, prostate, testis, ovary and colon. In the fetus, expressed in brain, lung and kidney. Low levels in fetal liver
Disease Association: Omodysplasia 2 (OMOD2) : A rare autosomal dominant skeletal dysplasia characterized by short humeri, radial head dislocation, short first metacarpals, facial dysmorphism and genitourinary anomalies. [The disease is caused by variants affecting the gene represented in this entry] | [Defects in FZD2 have been found in patients with Robinow syndrome-like features including short-limb dwarfism, broad thumbs and craniofacial abnormalities]
Product Specifications
Recombinant Human Frizzled-2 (FZD2), partial is a recombinant protein from Homo sapiens (Human), expressed in Mammalian cell, covering amino acids 24-190aa, with C-terminal hFc1-tagged tag, molecular weight 46.9kDa, purity Greater than 95% as determined by SDS-PAGE.. Suitable for ELISA and Western Blot applications.
