Nuclear cap-binding protein complex

nuclear cap-binding protein complex
Crystal structure of the human nuclear cap-binding complex.[1]
Identifiers
Symbol	NCBP1
Alt. symbols	NCBP
Entrez	4686
HUGO	7658
RefSeq	NM_002486
Other data
Locus	Chr. 9 q34.1

Nuclear cap-binding protein complex is a RNA-binding protein which binds to the 5' cap of pre-mRNA. The cap and nuclear cap-binding protein have many function in mRNA biogenesis including splicing, 3'-end formation by stabilizing the interaction of the 3'-end processing machinery, nuclear export and protection of the transcripts from nuclease degradation.^[2] When RNA is exported to the cytoplasm the nuclear cap-binding protein complex is replaced by cytoplasmic cap binding complex. The nuclear cap-binding complex is a functional heterodimer and composed of Cbc1/Cbc2 in yeast and CBC20/CBC80 in multicellular eukaryotes. Human nuclear cap-binding protein complex shows the large subunit, CBC80 consists of 757 amino acid residues. Its secondary structure contains approximately sixty percent of helical and one percent of beta sheet in the strand. The small subunit, CBC20 has 98 amino acid residues. Its secondary structure contains approximately twenty percent of helical and twenty-four percent of beta sheet in the strand.^[1] Human nuclear cap-binding protein complex plays important role in the maturation of pre-mRNA and uracil-rich small nuclear RNA.^[3]

References

External links

• nuclear cap-binding protein complex at the US National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)