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LCN2: lipocalin 2

1 protein, 154 patents, 0 drugs, 0 trials, 5,229 NIH grants and 15,802 papers.

Gene 7

Its symbol and name are HGNC's, unless HGNC and NCBI Gene contradict each other.

FieldValueSource
SymbolLCN2HGNC
Namelipocalin 2HGNC
NCBI Gene ID3934NCBI Gene
HGNC IDHGNC:6526HGNC
EnsemblENSG00000148346NCBI Gene
Aliases24p3, MSFI, NGAL, p25NCBI Gene
Typeprotein-codingNCBI Gene

Proteins 1

Reviewed human proteins whose Swiss-Prot entry states the gene.

UniProt entryProteinLengthStructuresGene stated inSource
P80188Neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin19859Ensembl, GeneID, HGNCUniProt

Patents 154

Patents whose sequence listing holds the protein exactly: the same sequence, by SHA-256, length and CRC-64. A sequence a patent lists is not always one it claims.

PublicationPublishedSEQ ID NOProteinSource
EP 4782554 A12026-07-295P80188Espacenet
WO 2026027676 A12026-02-0528P80188Espacenet
WO 2026027676 A12026-02-0530P80188Espacenet
JP 2026004568 A2026-01-1451860P80188Espacenet
JP 2026004568 A2026-01-1451863P80188Espacenet
US 12509511 B22025-12-3016P80188Espacenet
EP 4650780 A22025-11-192994P80188Espacenet
JP 2025147176 A2025-10-067748P80188Espacenet
JP 2025147176 A2025-10-067749P80188Espacenet
JP 2025529142 A2025-09-046870P80188Espacenet

Drugs 0

Drugs a ChEMBL mechanism record says act on the gene's protein, through Open Targets.

DrugChEMBL IDMechanismActionSource

Trials 0

Trials of those drugs. A trial joins the gene only through a drug that acts on it.

TrialDrugPhaseResults first postedSource

NIH grants 5229

NIH projects whose papers are about the gene, through NIH's grant-paper links.

ProjectTitleIts papers about the geneNewest fiscal yearSource
UL1TR001863Yale Clinical and Translational Science Award502,025NIH's project files
R01DK072381Kidney Injury Molecule-1 in Epithelial Repair412,025NIH's project files
P30CA016672Cancer Center Support Grant272,025NIH's project files
R01DK093770Novel Kidney Injury Tools in Deceased Organ Donation to Predict Graft Outcomes242,025NIH's project files
R01DK039773Mechanisms of Ischemic Kidney Injury and Repair172,025NIH's project files
P30ES005022Rutgers Center for Environmental Exposure and Disease (CEED)162,025NIH's project files
UL1TR001866Developing, Demonstrating, and Disseminating Innovative Programs to Achieve Translational Success152,025NIH's project files
P30CA008748Cancer Center Support Grant142,025NIH's project files
R01AG034853Biomarker-Based Diagnostic Algorithms To Prevent, Detect And Guide Treatment Of Kidney Disease In Persons Living With HIV122,025NIH's project files
P30DK034854Integrated Epithelial and Muscosal Biology112,025NIH's project files

Papers 15802

Newest first. Swiss-Prot's references are curated; PubTator's text mining finds papers that name the gene, not always ones about it.

PMIDFound bySource
42821783PubTator, text miningPubMed
42818906PubTator, text miningPubMed
42807193PubTator, text miningPubMed
42806147PubTator, text miningPubMed
42799617PubTator, text miningPubMed
42794711PubTator, text miningPubMed
42790297PubTator, text miningPubMed
42784977PubTator, text miningPubMed
42783394PubTator, text miningPubMed
42779584PubTator, text miningPubMed

The same record as JSON

Release gene-search-2026-11-11-0.1.0

ClinicalTrials.gov's posted results, through CTTI's AACT: ClinicalTrials.gov data via Aggregate Analysis of ClinicalTrials.gov (AACT), CTTI. CTTI makes its materials freely available and requests acknowledgement. https://aact.ctti-clinicaltrials.org/documentation/299 ClinicalTrials.gov's data carry an international copyright outside the United States: https://clinicaltrials.gov/about-site/terms-conditions.

ChEMBL, through Open Targets: CC BY-SA 3.0, for the parts from ChEMBL. Read on 8 Nov 2026 at https://platform-docs.opentargets.org/licence

ClinicalTrials.gov: none stated ClinicalTrials.gov's data carry an international copyright outside the United States: https://clinicaltrials.gov/about-site/terms-conditions.

EMBL-EBI's patent proteins: EMBL-EBI's patent protein files from the EPO, JPO, KIPO and USPTO. EMBL-EBI: "EMBL-EBI itself places no additional restrictions on the use or redistribution of the data available via its Data Resources and Tools other than those provided by the original data owners" and "EMBL-EBI expects attribution (e.g. in publications, services or products) for the use of any of its Data Resources and Tools." Read on 11 Nov 2026 at https://www.ebi.ac.uk/about/terms-of-use

GenBank's patent files: GenBank's patent files. NCBI: "NCBI places no restrictions on the use or distribution of the GenBank data. However, some submitters may claim patent, copyright, or other intellectual property rights in all or a portion of the data they have submitted." Read on 11 Nov 2026 at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/about/

HGNC: CC0: https://www.genenames.org/about/license/

NCBI Gene: None named for the file. NCBI says information created by or for the US government on its site is in the public domain, and asks that NLM be acknowledged: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/home/about/policies/

NIH's project files and grant-paper links: Public domain (NIH RePORTER)

Open Targets: CC0 1.0. Open Targets asks that users cite its latest paper: Buniello et al. 2025, Open Targets Platform: facilitating therapeutic hypotheses building in drug discovery, Nucleic Acids Research 53(D1):D1467, PMID 39657122. Read on 8 Nov 2026 at https://platform-docs.opentargets.org/licence

PubTator 3: Public domain

UniProt: CC BY 4.0. UniProt's licence file: "All databases and documents in the UniProt FTP directory may be copied and redistributed freely, without advance permission, provided that this copyright statement is reproduced with each copy." UniProt asks that users cite its latest paper: The UniProt Consortium, UniProt: the Universal Protein Knowledgebase in 2025, Nucleic Acids Research 53:D609-D617, https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkae1010. Read on 9 Nov 2026 at https://www.uniprot.org/help/license