Description
Product Characteristics: This gene encodes a nuclear protein and has similarity to drosophila male-specific lethal-3 gene. The drosophila protein plays a critical role in a dosage-compensation pathway, which equalizes X-linked gene expression in males and females. Thus this encoded protein is thought to play a similar function in chromatin remodeling and transcriptional regulation. This gene has been found to undergo X inactivation. There are four alternatively spliced transcript variants of this gene encoding different isoforms.
Cellular Localization: Nucleus
Target Information: This gene encodes a nuclear protein that is similar to the product of the Drosophila male-specific lethal-3 gene. The Drosophila protein plays a critical role in a dosage-compensation pathway, which equalizes X-linked gene expression in males and females. Thus, the human protein is thought to play a similar function in chromatin remodeling and transcriptional regulation, and it has been found as part of a complex that is responsible for histone H4 lysine-16 acetylation. This gene can undergo X inactivation. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants. Related pseudogenes have been identified on chromosomes 2, 7 and 8. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2010]