Also known as NARP, NP-II, NP2, neuronal pentraxin 2
Neuronal pentraxin-2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the NPTX2 gene.
This gene encodes a member of the family of neuronal petraxins, synaptic proteins that are related to C-reactive protein. This protein is involved in excitatory synapse formation. It also plays a role in clustering of alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid (AMPA)-type glutamate receptors at established synapses, resulting in non-apoptotic cell death of dopaminergic nerve cells. Up-regulation of this gene in Parkinson disease (PD) tissues suggests that the protein may be involved in the pathology of PD. [provided by RefSeq, Feb 2009].
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Neuronal pentraxin-2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the NPTX2 gene.
== Function ==
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).