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SAV1

Protein salvador homolog 1 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SAV1 gene.[1][2][3]

WW domain-containing proteins are found in all eukaryotes and play an important role in the regulation of a wide variety of cellular functions such as protein degradation, transcription, and RNA splicing. This gene encodes a protein which contains 2 WW domains and a coiled-coil region. It is ubiquitously expressed in adult tissues. The encoded protein is 94% identical to the mouse protein at the amino acid level.[3]

References

References

  1. Tapon N, Harvey KF, Bell DW, Wahrer DC, Schiripo TA, Haber DA, Hariharan IK (Aug 2002). “salvador Promotes both cell cycle exit and apoptosis in Drosophila and is mutated in human cancer cell lines”. Cell. 110 (4): 467–78. doi:10.1016/S0092-8674(02)00824-3. PMID 12202036.
  2. Valverde P (Oct 2000). “Cloning, expression, and mapping of hWW45, a novel human WW domain-containing gene”. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 276 (3): 990–8. doi:10.1006/bbrc.2000.3582. PMID 11027580.
  3. 3.0 3.1 “Entrez Gene: SAV1 salvador homolog 1 (Drosophila)”.
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