Description
Product Characteristics:
WDR79 contains six WD (tryptophan-aspartate) repeat domains found in a number of proteins that function as adaptor molecules in signal transduction and cytoskeletal organization. The WD repeat is defined by four or more repeating units of a conserved core of approximately 40 amino acids ending with tryptophan-aspartic acid (WD). WD repeats may serve as sites of protein-protein interaction for adaptor proteins and facilitate multiprotein complex formation. The function of the WDR79 protein has not been characterized, however significant and consistent single nucleotide polymorphisms in the WDR79 gene have been found to be associated with ER negative breast cancer.
Subcellular location: Cytoplasm, Nucleus
Synonyms: FLJ10385, TCAB1, telomerase Cajal Body protein 1, WD repeat containing protein 79, WRAP53, WDR79/TCAB1, WAP53_HUMAN.
Target Information: This gene encodes an essential component of the telomerase holoenzyme complex, a ribonucleoprotein complex required for telomere synthesis. This protein is enriched in Cajal bodies, nuclear sites of RNP processing that are important for telomerase function. It interacts with dyskerin, TERT and TERC, other components of active telomerase, and with small Cajal body RNAs (scaRNAs), which are involved in modifying splicing RNAs. This mRNA also functions as a p53 antisense transcript, that regulates endogenous p53 mRNA levels and further induction of p53 protein by targeting the 5' untranslated region of p53 mRNA. Alternatively spliced transcript variants which differ only in the 5' UTR have been found for this gene. [provided by RefSeq, Mar 2011]