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MT2A: metallothionein 2A

1 protein, 61 patents, 0 drugs, 0 trials, 2,441 NIH grants and 4,871 papers.

Gene 7

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

FieldValueSource
SymbolMT2AHGNC
Namemetallothionein 2AHGNC
NCBI Gene ID4502NCBI Gene
HGNC IDHGNC:7406HGNC
EnsemblENSG00000125148NCBI Gene
AliasesMT-2, MT-II, MT2NCBI Gene
Typeprotein-codingNCBI Gene

Proteins 1

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

UniProt entryProteinLengthStructuresGene stated inSource
P02795Metallothionein-2612Ensembl, GeneID, HGNCUniProt

Patents 61

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
JP 2026088121 A2026-05-286P02795Espacenet
JP 2026004568 A2026-01-1453324P02795Espacenet
EP 4650780 A22025-11-191146P02795Espacenet
EP 4596042 A22025-08-066P02795Espacenet
JP 2025517970 A2025-06-121146P02795Espacenet
JP 2025032204 A2025-03-1131817P02795Espacenet
EP 4461818 A22024-11-1331817P02795Espacenet
US 12000843 B22024-06-0411P02795Espacenet
JP 2024028454 A2024-03-046P02795Espacenet
US 11866488 B22024-01-096P02795Espacenet

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 2441

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

ProjectTitleIts papers about the geneNewest fiscal yearSource
P30CA016672Cancer Center Support Grant92,025NIH's project files
P30CA023074University of Arizona Cancer Center - Cancer Center Support Grant92,025NIH's project files
P30ES006694Southwest Environmental Health Sciences Center82,025NIH's project files
I01BX004293CYP11A1-derived secosteroids as therapeutic agents in UVB induced skin cancer72,025NIH's project files
P30CA008748Cancer Center Support Grant72,025NIH's project files
P30CA042014Cancer Center Support Grant72,025NIH's project files
R01AR073004Mechanism of action and function of novel secosteroid 20(OH)D3 in the skin72,025NIH's project files
P30CA086862Cancer Center Support Grant62,025NIH's project files
P51OD011132Emory National Primate Research Center52,025NIH's project files
R35GM127086Structural Biology Of G Protein-Coupled Receptors52,025NIH's project files

Papers 4871

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
42793064PubTator, text miningPubMed
42793049PubTator, text miningPubMed
42776828PubTator, text miningPubMed
42737758PubTator, text miningPubMed
42709544PubTator, text miningPubMed
42646972PubTator, text miningPubMed
42632795PubTator, text miningPubMed
42623125PubTator, text miningPubMed
42583078PubTator, text miningPubMed
42478333PubTator, 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