BioT2 is a family of eukaryotic proteins expressed only in the testes. BioT2 is found abundantly in five types of murine cancer cell lines, suggesting it plays a role in testes development as well as tumourigenesis [1,2,3].

1: RNA interference against Biot2, a novel mouse testis-specific gene, inhibits the growth of tumor cells. Wang CT, Zhang P, Wang YS, Ruan XZ, Li ZY, Peng F, Yang HS, Wei YQ; Cell Mol Biol Lett. 2009;14:363-376. PMID:19277478

2: Characterization of a novel rat gene RTAP2a, screened by cross-reactive SEREX, restrictedly expressed in testis. Yang H, Wang C, Wang R, Deng H, Ding Z, Yang J, Lu Y, Li J, Zhang P, Mao Y, Kan B, Wei L, Peng F, Wei Y; J Biosci Bioeng. 2009;107:589-595. PMID:19447332

3: Antitumor and anti-angiogenesis immunity induced by CR-SEREX-identified Xenopus RHAMM. Yang HS, Zhang DM, Deng HX, Peng F, Wei YQ; Cancer Sci. 2010;101:862-868. PMID:20704574