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

plasminogen (PLG), plasminogen (Plg), plasminogen (plg)

Other aliases include:

DKFZp779M0222, Pg, AI649309, Ab1-346, PLG, LPA, wu:fb70e09, plg, DKFZp470G2422

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

plasminogen – plasmin – angiostatin – plasmin heavy chain A – plasmin light chain B – lipoprotein, Lp(a)

Plasminogen fulfills a number of functions:

apolipoprotein binding – calcium ion binding – peptidase activity – serine-type endopeptidase activity – catalytic activity – endopeptidase activity – hydrolase activity – serine-type peptidase activity – cell surface binding – protein binding

Plasminogen is relevant to the following processes:

blood coagulation – induction of apoptosis – negative regulation of angiogenesis – negative regulation of blood vessel endothelial cell migration – negative regulation of cell proliferation – negative regulation of fibrinolysis – positive regulation of fibrinolysis – proteolysis – tissue remodeling – apoptosis – fibrinolysis – labyrinthine layer blood vessel development – muscle cell homeostasis – myoblast differentiation – proteolysis involved in cellular protein catabolic process – tissue regeneration – trophoblast giant cell differentiation – extracellular matrix disassembly – negative regulation of cell-substrate adhesion – muscle homeostasis

Locations for Plasminogen:

extracellular region – extracellular space – microsome – extrinsic to external side of plasma membrane

Source: NCBI Entrez Gene, Gene Ontology