The following gene names and symbols are associated with antigen Insulin Induced Gene 2 across different species:

insulin induced gene 2 (INSIG2), insulin induced gene 2 (Insig2), insulin induced gene 2 (insig2)

Other aliases include:

MGC26273, Insig-2, 2900053I11Rik, C730043J18Rik, MGC82156, DKFZp459F058

On the protein level the following designations are being used for antigen Insulin Induced Gene 2:

insulin-induced gene 2 protein – INSIG-2 – INSIG2 membrane protein – insulin induced protein 2 – INSIG-2 membrane protein – insulin induced gene 2 – insulin induced protein 2 (predicted)-like – insulin-induced gene 2 protein-like – insulin-induced membrane protein 2 – Insulin-induced gene 2 protein

Insulin Induced Gene 2 fulfills a number of functions:

protein binding – transcription factor binding

Insulin Induced Gene 2 is relevant to the following processes:

ER-nuclear sterol response pathway – cholesterol metabolic process – steroid metabolic process – cholesterol biosynthetic process – cranial suture morphogenesis – inner ear morphogenesis – lipid metabolic process – middle ear morphogenesis – negative regulation of fatty acid biosynthetic process – negative regulation of steroid biosynthetic process – palate development – response to sterol depletion – sterol biosynthetic process – triglyceride metabolic process – response to fatty acid – response to insulin stimulus – response to lipid

Locations for Insulin Induced Gene 2:

SREBP-SCAP-Insig complex – endoplasmic reticulum – endoplasmic reticulum membrane – integral to membrane – membrane

Source: NCBI Entrez Gene, Gene Ontology