PABPN1

PABPN1

PABPN1

Protein-coding gene in the species Homo sapiens


Polyadenylate-binding protein 2 (PABP-2) also known as polyadenylate-binding nuclear protein 1 (PABPN1) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the PABPN1 gene.[5][6] PABN1 is a member of a larger family of poly(A)-binding proteins in the human genome.

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Function

This gene encodes an abundant nuclear protein that binds with high affinity to nascent poly(A) tails. The protein is required for progressive and efficient polymerization of poly(A) tails on the 3' ends of eukaryotic genes and controls the size of the poly(A) tail to about 250 nt. At steady-state, this protein is localized in the nucleus whereas a different poly(A) binding protein is localized in the cytoplasm. An expansion of the trinucleotide (GCN) repeat from normal 10 to 11-17 at the 5' end of the coding region of this gene leads to autosomal dominant oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy (OPMD) disease.[7] Multiple splice variants have been described but their full-length nature is not known. One splice variant includes introns 1 and 6 but no protein is formed.[6]

Interactions

PABPN1 has been shown to interact with SNW1.[8]


References

  1. "Human PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
  2. "Mouse PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
  3. Brais B, Xie YG, Sanson M, Morgan K, Weissenbach J, Korczyn AD, Blumen SC, Fardeau M, Tomé FM, Bouchard JP (Aug 1995). "The oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy locus maps to the region of the cardiac alpha and beta myosin heavy chain genes on chromosome 14q11.2-q13". Hum Mol Genet. 4 (3): 429–34. doi:10.1093/hmg/4.3.429. PMID 7795598.
  4. Brais B (January 2009). "Oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy: a polyalanine myopathy". Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports. 9 (1): 76–82. doi:10.1007/s11910-009-0012-y. PMID 19080757. S2CID 7248907.

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