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WTAP (gene)
Introduction
Pre-mRNA-splicing regulator WTAP is a protein that in humans is encoded by the WTAP gene.[1][2][3]
The Wilms tumor suppressor gene WT1 appears to play a role in both transcriptional and posttranscriptional regulation of certain cellular genes. This gene encodes a WT1-associating protein, which is a ubiquitously expressed nuclear protein. Like WT1 protein, this protein is localized throughout the nucleoplasm as well as in speckles and partially colocalizes with splicing factors. Alternative splicing of this gene results in three transcript variants, two of which encode the same isoform.[3]
References
References
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- β 2.0 2.1 Little NA, Hastie ND, Davies RC (Oct 2000). “Identification of WTAP, a novel Wilms’ tumour 1-associating protein”. Hum Mol Genet. 9 (15): 2231β9. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.hmg.a018914. PMIDΒ 11001926.
- β 3.0 3.1 “Entrez Gene: WTAP Wilms tumor 1 associated protein”.
Further reading
Further reading
- Small TW, Bolender Z, Bueno C, et al. (2007). “Wilms’ tumor 1-associating protein regulates the proliferation of vascular smooth muscle cells”. Circ. Res. 99 (12): 1338β46. doi:10.1161/01.RES.0000252289.79841.d3. PMIDΒ 17095724.
- Horiuchi K, Umetani M, Minami T, et al. (2007). “Wilms’ tumor 1-associating protein regulates G2/M transition through stabilization of cyclin A2 mRNA”. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 103 (46): 17278β83. doi:10.1073/pnas.0608357103. PMCΒ 1634838. PMIDΒ 17088532.
- Rong Y, Cheng L, Ning H, et al. (2007). “Wilms’ tumor 1 and signal transducers and activators of transcription 3 synergistically promote cell proliferation: a possible mechanism in sporadic Wilms’ tumor”. Cancer Res. 66 (16): 8049β57. doi:10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-06-1172. PMIDΒ 16912181.
- Rual JF, Venkatesan K, Hao T, et al. (2005). “Towards a proteome-scale map of the human protein-protein interaction network”. Nature. 437 (7062): 1173β8. doi:10.1038/nature04209. PMIDΒ 16189514.
- Gerhard DS, Wagner L, Feingold EA, et al. (2004). “The Status, Quality, and Expansion of the NIH Full-Length cDNA Project: The Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC)”. Genome Res. 14 (10B): 2121β7. doi:10.1101/gr.2596504. PMCΒ 528928. PMIDΒ 15489334.
- Beausoleil SA, Jedrychowski M, Schwartz D, et al. (2004). “Large-scale characterization of HeLa cell nuclear phosphoproteins”. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 101 (33): 12130β5. doi:10.1073/pnas.0404720101. PMCΒ 514446. PMIDΒ 15302935.
- Obuse C, Yang H, Nozaki N, et al. (2004). “Proteomics analysis of the centromere complex from HeLa interphase cells: UV-damaged DNA binding protein 1 (DDB-1) is a component of the CEN-complex, while BMI-1 is transiently co-localized with the centromeric region in interphase”. Genes Cells. 9 (2): 105β20. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2443.2004.00705.x. PMIDΒ 15009096.
- Utsch B, Kaya A, Ozburun A, et al. (2004). “Exclusion of WTAP and HOXA13 as candidate genes for isolated hypospadias”. Scand. J. Urol. Nephrol. 37 (6): 498β501. doi:10.1080/00365590310014517. PMIDΒ 14675924.
- Tomsig JL, Snyder SL, Creutz CE (2003). “Identification of targets for calcium signaling through the copine family of proteins. Characterization of a coiled-coil copine-binding motif”. J. Biol. Chem. 278 (12): 10048β54. doi:10.1074/jbc.M212632200. PMIDΒ 12522145.
- Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH, et al. (2003). “Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences”. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99 (26): 16899β903. doi:10.1073/pnas.242603899. PMCΒ 139241. PMIDΒ 12477932.
- Ortega A, Niksic M, Bachi A, et al. (2003). “Biochemical function of female-lethal (2)D/Wilms’ tumor suppressor-1-associated proteins in alternative pre-mRNA splicing”. J. Biol. Chem. 278 (5): 3040β7. doi:10.1074/jbc.M210737200. PMIDΒ 12444081.
- Hoja MR, Wahlestedt C, HΓΆΓΆg C (2000). “A visual intracellular classification strategy for uncharacterized human proteins”. Exp. Cell Res. 259 (1): 239β46. doi:10.1006/excr.2000.4948. PMIDΒ 10942595.
