The following gene names and symbols are associated with antigen Alien across different species:

COP9 constitutive photomorphogenic homolog subunit 2 (Arabidopsis) (COPS2), alien, isoform B (alien), COP9 constitutive photomorphogenic homolog subunit 2 (Arabidopsis) (cops2)

Other aliases include:

CSN2, SGN2, ALIEN, TRIP15, Alien, BcDNA:LD10463, CH2, DCH2, DmelCG9556, CG9556, zgc:86624, wu:fc05f05, wu:fc06g10, wu:fc60f04, wu:fl94f12

On the protein level the following designations are being used for antigen Alien:

COP9 constitutive photomorphogenic homolog subunit 2 – COP9 signalosome complex subunit 2 – JAB1-containing signalosome subunit 2 – thyroid receptor interacting protein 15 – alien, isoform B – CG9556-PB – alien-PB – d-Alien – drosophila COP9 signalosome homolog 2 – COP9 complex homolog subunit 2 – alien – alien, isoform A – CG9556-PA – alien-PA – Alien

Alien fulfills a number of functions:

protein binding – signal transducer activity – protein homodimerization activity – transcription corepressor activity

Alien is relevant to the following processes:

signal transduction – transcription from RNA polymerase II promoter – negative regulation of transcription, DNA-dependent – phagocytosis, engulfment – protein stabilization – biological_process

Locations for Alien:

cytoplasm – nucleolus – nucleus – signalosome

Source: NCBI Entrez Gene, Gene Ontology