Summary: Smg-4/UPF3 family
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This family contains proteins that are involved in nonsense mediated mRNA decay. A process that is triggered by premature stop codons in mRNA. The family includes Smg-4 [1] and UPF3.
Literature references
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Aronoff R, Baran R, Hodgkin J; , Gene 2001;268:153-164.: Molecular identification of smg-4, required for mRNA surveillance in C. elegans. PUBMED:11368911 EPMC:11368911
Internal database links
SCOOP: | RRM_2 |
External database links
SCOP: | 1uw4 |
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InterPro entry IPR005120
Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) is a surveillance mechanism by which eukaryotic cells detect and degrade transcripts containing premature termination codons. Three 'up-frameshift' proteins, UPF1, UPF2 and UPF3, are essential for this process in organisms ranging from yeast, human to plants [PUBMED:11368911]. Exon junction complexes (EJCs) are deposited ~24 nucleotides upstream of exon-exon junctions after splicing. Translation causes displacement of the EJCs, however, premature translation termination upstream of one or more EJCs triggers the recruitment of UPF1, UPF2 and UPF3 and activates the NMD pathway [PUBMED:12718880, PUBMED:15048104].
This family contains UPF3. The crystal structure of the complex between human UPF2 and UPF3b, which are, respectively, a MIF4G (middle portion of eIF4G) domain and an RNP domain (ribonucleoprotein-type RNA-binding domain) has been determined to 1.95A. The protein-protein interface is mediated by highly conserved charged residues in UPF2 and UPF3b and involves the beta-sheet surface of the UPF3b ribonucleoprotein (RNP) domain, which is generally used by these domains to bind nucleic acids. In UPF3b the RNP domain does not bind RNA, whereas the UPF2 construct and the complex do. It is clear that some RNP domains have evolved for specific protein-protein interactions rather than as nucleic acid binding modules [PUBMED:15004547].
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Pfam Clan
This family is a member of clan RRM (CL0221), which has the following description:
This clan contains families that are related to the RNA recognition motif domains. However, not all these families are RNA binding.
The clan contains the following 31 members:
BRAP2 Calcipressin DbpA DUF1743 DUF1866 DUF4523 GlcNAc-1_reg GUCT Limkain-b1 Nup35_RRM Nup35_RRM_2 PHM7_cyt RL RNA_bind RRM_1 RRM_2 RRM_3 RRM_5 RRM_7 RRM_8 RRM_9 RRM_occluded RRM_Rrp7 SET_assoc Smg4_UPF3 Spo7_2_N Tap-RNA_bind Transposase_22 U1snRNP70_N XS YlmH_RBDAlignments
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Curation
Seed source: | Bateman A |
Previous IDs: | none |
Type: | Family |
Sequence Ontology: | SO:0100021 |
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Bateman A |
Number in seed: | 90 |
Number in full: | 1824 |
Average length of the domain: | 161.20 aa |
Average identity of full alignment: | 35 % |
Average coverage of the sequence by the domain: | 34.52 % |
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MIF4GStructures
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