FUNCTION: SIGNAL-RECOGNITION-PARTICLE ASSEMBLY HAS A CRUCIAL ROLE IN TARGETING SECRETORY PROTEINS TO THE ROUGH ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM MEMBRANE. SRP9 TOGETHER WITH SRP14 AND THE ALU PORTION OF THE SRP RNA, CONSTITUTES THE ELONGATION ARREST DOMAIN OF SRP. THE COMPLEX OF SRP9 AND SRP14 IS REQUIRED FOR SRP RNA BINDING. * SUBUNIT: SIGNAL RECOGNITION PARTICLE CONSISTS OF A 7S RNA MOLECULE OF 300 NUCLEOTIDES AND SIX PROTEIN SUBUNITS: SRP72, SRP68, SRP54, SRP19, SRP14 AND SRP9. * SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: Cytoplasmic. * SIMILARITY: BELONGS TO THE SRP9 FAMILY. |
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