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Literature associating CES2 and large intestine adenoma

CES2 [ENSP00000317842]

Methylumbelliferyl-acetate deacetylase 2; Involved in the detoxification of xenobiotics and in the activation of ester and amide prodrugs. Shows high catalytic efficiency for hydrolysis of cocaine, 4-methylumbelliferyl acetate, heroin and 6-monoacetylmorphine; Belongs to the type-B carboxylesterase/lipase family.

Synonyms:  CES2,  CES2p,  hCES2,  A0A024R6X1,  H3BUN5 ...

Linkouts:  STRING  Pharos  UniProt  OMIM

The disease-gene associations are derived from automatic text mining of the biomedical literature, manually curated database annotations, cancer mutation data, and genome-wide association studies. The confidence of each association is signified by stars, where ★★★★★ is the highest confidence and ★☆☆☆☆ is the lowest.

Developed by Sune Frankild, Alexander Junge, Albert Pallejà, Dhouha Grissa, Kalliopi Tsafou, and Lars Juhl Jensen from the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research.