Nidogen-2

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title: "Nidogen-2" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["extracellular-matrix-proteins", "genes-on-human-chromosome-14"] description: "Protein-coding gene in the species Homo sapiens" topic_path: "general/extracellular-matrix-proteins" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nidogen-2" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Protein-coding gene in the species Homo sapiens ::

Nidogen-2, also known as osteonidogen, is a basal lamina protein of the nidogen family. It was the second nidogen to be described after nidogen-1 (entactin). Both play key roles during late embryonic development. In humans it is encoded by the NID2 gene.

References

References

1. (2002). "Nidogen-1 and nidogen-2 are found in basement membranes during human embryonic development". The Histochemical Journal.
2. (Sep 1998). "Nidogen-2: a new basement membrane protein with diverse binding properties". Journal of Molecular Biology.
3. "Entrez Gene: NID2 nidogen 2 (osteonidogen)".

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