Biology:UPF3B

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Short description: Protein-coding gene in the species Homo sapiens


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Regulator of nonsense transcripts 3B is a protein that in humans is encoded by the UPF3B gene.[1][2][3]

This gene encodes a protein that is part of a post-splicing multiprotein complex involved in both mRNA nuclear export and mRNA surveillance. The encoded protein is one of two functional homologs to yeast Upf3p. mRNA surveillance detects exported mRNAs with truncated open reading frames and initiates nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD). When translation ends upstream from the last exon-exon junction, this triggers NMD to degrade mRNAs containing premature stop codons. This protein binds to the mRNA and remains bound after nuclear export, acting as a nucleocytoplasmic shuttling protein. It forms with Y14 a complex that binds specifically 20 nt upstream of exon-exon junctions. This gene is located on the long arm of chromosome X. Two splice variants encoding different isoforms have been found for this gene.[3]

Interactions

UPF3B has been shown to interact with UPF2[2][4][5][6] and UPF1.[2][5][7]

References

  1. "Identification and characterization of human orthologues to Saccharomyces cerevisiae Upf2 protein and Upf3 protein (Caenorhabditis elegans SMG-4)". Mol Cell Biol 21 (1): 209–23. Jan 2001. doi:10.1128/MCB.21.1.209-223.2001. PMID 11113196. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Human Upf proteins target an mRNA for nonsense-mediated decay when bound downstream of a termination codon". Cell 103 (7): 1121–31. Feb 2001. doi:10.1016/S0092-8674(00)00214-2. PMID 11163187. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 "Entrez Gene: UPF3B UPF3 regulator of nonsense transcripts homolog B (yeast)". https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=gene&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=65109. 
  4. Lehner, Ben; Sanderson Christopher M (Jul 2004). "A protein interaction framework for human mRNA degradation". Genome Res. 14 (7): 1315–23. doi:10.1101/gr.2122004. ISSN 1088-9051. PMID 15231747. 
  5. 5.0 5.1 Lejeune, Fabrice; Li Xiaojie; Maquat Lynne E (Sep 2003). "Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay in mammalian cells involves decapping, deadenylating, and exonucleolytic activities". Mol. Cell 12 (3): 675–87. doi:10.1016/S1097-2765(03)00349-6. ISSN 1097-2765. PMID 14527413. 
  6. Lykke-Andersen, Jens (Dec 2002). "Identification of a human decapping complex associated with hUpf proteins in nonsense-mediated decay". Mol. Cell. Biol. 22 (23): 8114–21. doi:10.1128/MCB.22.23.8114-8121.2002. ISSN 0270-7306. PMID 12417715. 
  7. Schell, Thomas; Köcher Thomas; Wilm Matthias; Seraphin Bertrand; Kulozik Andreas E; Hentze Matthias W (Aug 2003). "Complexes between the nonsense-mediated mRNA decay pathway factor human upf1 (up-frameshift protein 1) and essential nonsense-mediated mRNA decay factors in HeLa cells". Biochem. J. 373 (Pt 3): 775–83. doi:10.1042/BJ20021920. ISSN 0264-6021. PMID 12723973. 

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