| ncRNA Symbol: | UPF1 |
| Full Name: | UPF1, RNA helicase and ATPase |
| Category: | mRNA |
| Synonyms: | HUPF1|NORF1|RENT1|pNORF1|smg-2 |
| Chromosome: | chr19 |
| Strand: | + |
| Coordinate: | | Start Site(bp): | 18831938 | End Site(bp): | 18868236 | |
| Gene Summary: | This gene encodes a protein that is part of a post-splicing multiprotein complex involved in both mRNA nuclear export and mRNA surveillance. 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 is located only in the cytoplasm. When translation ends, it interacts with the protein that is a functional homolog of yeast Upf2p to trigger mRNA decapping. Use of multiple polyadenylation sites has been noted for this gene. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2014] |
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