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PSEN2 (Presenilin-2) is an enzyme. The public catalogues list it as a drug target, and an approved or late-stage drug is recorded against it. Tied to Desmoid tumour. This dossier gathers the 0 products (0 approved), 0 trials, 0 pathways and 0 resistance routes in the corpus that involve it, with external identifiers so it can be joined to UniProt, ChEMBL, Open Targets and the rest of biology.

Biology

Catalytic subunit of the gamma-secretase complex, an endoprotease complex that catalyses the intramembrane cleavage of integral membrane proteins such as Notch receptors and APP (amyloid-beta precursor protein). Selectively cleaves late endosomal/lysosomal localised substrates and generates the prominent pool of intracellular amyloid beta that contains longer amyloid beta. The holoprotein functions as a calcium-leak channel that allows the passive movement of calcium from endoplasmic reticulum to cytosol and is involved in calcium homeostasis. Is a regulator of mitochondrion-endoplasmic reticulum membrane tethering and modulates calcium ions shuttling between ER and mitochondria. Location: Endoplasmic reticulum membrane; Golgi apparatus membrane; Late endosome membrane; Lysosome membrane (UniProt). Locus 1q42.13 (HGNC).

Where it is found
  • Desmoid tumour: Open Targets association 0.50 with desmoid tumour (MONDO_0007608)
Class: enzyme · Gene: PSEN2 · Facts checked 2026-09-23 · Target page

External identifiers

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Query for this target: (TITLE:"PSEN2" OR ABSTRACT:"PSEN2" OR TITLE:"presenilin 2" OR ABSTRACT:"presenilin 2" OR TITLE:"Presenilin-2" OR ABSTRACT:"Presenilin-2" OR TITLE:"AD3L" OR ABSTRACT:"AD3L" OR TITLE:"STM2" OR ABSTRACT:"STM2" OR TITLE:"PS2" OR ABSTRACT:"PS2") AND (cancer OR tumor OR tumour OR oncology OR carcinoma OR lymphoma OR leukemia OR leukaemia OR myeloma OR sarcoma OR melanoma OR glioma). Results are unfiltered search hits about PSEN2, not a curated reading list.

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The dossier as machine-readable JSON: identifiers from HGNC, Ensembl, UniProt and ChEMBL, products with status, trials, pathways, hotspots, open questions and assays. The full entity record is in the open API at /api/v1/entities/psen2.json. Licence CC BY-NC 4.0.