BSG
Description
The BSG (basigin (Ok blood group)) is a protein-coding gene located on chromosome 19.
BSG may refer to:
== Places == Bata Airport (IATA airport code: BSG), the second largest airport in Equatorial Guinea Besitang station (rail station code BSG), North Sumatra, Sumatra Island, Indonesia; see List of railway stations in Indonesia Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, a library in Paris, France Bournemouth School for Girls, a grammar school located in Bournemouth, Dorset, England, UK British School of Guangzhou.
Isoform 1 is essential for normal retinal maturation and development. It acts as a retinal cell surface receptor for NXNL1 and plays an important role in NXNL1-mediated survival of retinal cone photoreceptors. In association with glucose transporter SLC16A1/GLUT1 and NXNL1, it promotes retinal cone survival by enhancing aerobic glycolysis and accelerating the entry of glucose into photoreceptors. It may act as a potent stimulator of IL6 secretion in multiple cell lines including monocytes.
BSG is also known as 5F7, CD147, EMMPRIN, EMPRIN, HAb18G, OK, TCSF.
Associated Diseases
- inborn errors of metabolism
- cancer
- low grade glioma
- Miyoshi myopathy
- breast cancer
- cryopyrin-associated periodic syndrome
