Calpain 2(Calpain-2 catalytic subunit) is also named as CANPL2, CANPml, mCANP, FLJ39928 and belongs to the peptidase C2 family. Calpain, an intracellular calcium-dependent protease that cleaves cytoskeletal and submembranous proteins, is thought to play a role in cytoskeletal reorganization
and muscle protein degradation. The mammalian calpains include ubiquitous, stomach-specific, and muscle-specific proteins. The ubiquitous enzymes consist of heterodimers with distinct large, catalytic subunits associated with a common small, regulatory subunit. This gene encodes the large subunit of the ubiquitous enzyme, calpain 2.
