5'-3' exoribonuclease 2

5'-3' exoribonuclease 2
Identifiers
Symbol XRN2
External IDs OMIM608851 MGI894687 HomoloGene6927 GeneCards: XRN2 Gene
EC number 3.1.13.-
Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez 22803 24128
Ensembl ENSG00000088930 ENSMUSG00000027433
UniProt Q9H0D6 Q9DBR1
RefSeq (mRNA) NM_012255 NM_011917
RefSeq (protein) NP_036387 NP_036047
Location (UCSC) Chr 20:
21.23 – 21.32 Mb
Chr 2:
146.84 – 146.9 Mb
PubMed search [1] [2]

5'-3' Exoribonuclease 2 (XRN2) also known as DHM1-like protein is an exoribonuclease enzyme that in humans is encoded by the XRN2 gene.[1]

The human gene encoding XRN2 shares similarity with the mouse Dhm1 and the yeast dhp1 genes. The yeast gene is involved in homologous recombination and RNA metabolism, such as RNA synthesis and RNA trafficking. Complementation studies show that Dhm1 has a similar function in mouse as dhp1.

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Function

Human XRN2 is involved in the torpedo model of transcrption termination.[2]

The C. elegans homologue, XRN-2, is involved in the degradation of certain mature miRNAs and their dislodging from miRISC miRNAs.[3]

References

  1. ^ Zhang M, Yu L, Xin Y, Hu P, Fu Q, Yu C, Zhao S (July 1999). "Cloning and mapping of the XRN2 gene to human chromosome 20p11.1-p11.2". Genomics 59 (2): 252–4. doi:10.1006/geno.1999.5866. PMID 10409438. 
  2. ^ West S, Gromak N, Proudfoot NJ (November 2004). "Human 5' --> 3' exonuclease Xrn2 promotes transcription termination at co-transcriptional cleavage sites". Nature 432 (7016): 522–5. doi:10.1038/nature03035. PMID 15565158. 
  3. ^ Chatterjee S, Grosshans H (September 2009). "Active turnover modulates mature microRNA activity in Caenorhabditis elegans". Nature 461 (7263): 546–9. doi:10.1038/nature08349. PMID 19734881. 

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