FUNCTION: THIS PROTEIN IS A COMPONENT OF THE HETEROGENOUS NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN (HNRNP) COMPLEXES WHICH PROVIDE THE SUBSTRATE FOR THE PROCESSING EVENTS THAT PRE-MRNAS UNDERGO BEFORE BECOMING FUNCTIONAL, TRANSLATABLE MRNAS IN THE CYTOPLASM. BINDS POLY (RG). * SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: Nuclear; nucleoplasm. * TISSUE SPECIFICITY: Expressed ubiquitously. * DOMAIN: EACH QUASI-RRM REPEAT BOUND POLY(RG), WHILE ONLY THE N-TERMINAL QRRM BOUND POLY(RC) AND POLY (RU). NONE OF THE REPEATS BOUND DETECTABLE AMOUNTS OF POLY(RA). * SIMILARITY: CONTAINS 3 RNA RECOGNITION MOTIFS (RRM). |
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10-DEC-02
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