Table 2.
Involvement of EPAC proteins in human patient pathologies
Pathology | EPAC1 Expression or Mutation | EPAC2 Expression or Mutation |
---|---|---|
Alzheimer’s disease and autism | ↑AD: prefrontal cortex/hippocampus (680) | ↓AD: prefrontal cortex/hippocampus (680) |
↑AD: 3 SNPs (1207) | ||
↑Autism: 4 missense mutations (40, 1044) | ||
Depression | SNP (696) | ↑Prefrontal cortex/hippocampus of suicide victims (259) |
Heart failure | ↑Left ventricle (692) | |
COPD/cigarette smoke | ↓Lung tissue (786) | |
Thyroid malignancies | ↑Differentiated (109), ↓undifferentiated (109) | |
Cancer | ↑Gastric cancer (991), ↑breast cancer (567), ↑pancreatic cancer (636) |
AD, Alzheimer’s disease; SNP, single nucleotide polymorphism. Reference numbers are in parentheses.