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heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein U; hnRNP U; scaffold attachment factor A; SAF-A; p120; pp120 (HNRNPU, HNRPU, SAFA, U211)
Function:
- binds to pre-mRNA
- has high affinity for scaffold-attached region (SAR) DNA
- binds to double-stranded DNA & single-stranded DNA & RNA
- extensively phosphorylated
- Arg-733 & Arg-739 are dimethylated, probably to asymmetric dimethylarginine
- identified in the spliceosome C complex
- ligand for CR2
Structure:
- contains 1 B30.2/SPRY domain
- contains 1 SAP domain
Compartment:
- nucleus, cell surface
- component of ribonucleosomes
- also found associated with the cell surface
Alternative splicing: named isoforms=2; long, short
General
heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein (hnRNP)
phosphoprotein
RNA-binding protein
Properties
SIZE: entity length = 825 aa
MW = 91 kD
COMPARTMENT: cell nucleus
MOTIF: acidic region {2-160}
MOTIF: acidic residue (SEVERAL)
acetylation site
SITE: N-TERMINUS
EFFECTOR-BOUND: acetyl
Ser phosphorylation site {S4}
SAP {8-42}
MOTIF: Ser phosphorylation site {S26}
Ser phosphorylation site {S59}
Ser phosphorylation site {S66}
glutamate-rich region {84-94}
MOTIF: glutamate residue (SEVERAL)
glutamine-rich region {161-209}
MOTIF: glutamine residue (SEVERAL)
Ser phosphorylation site {S188}
B30.2/SPRY {267-464}
MOTIF: Ser phosphorylation site {S271}
Tyr phosphorylation site {Y473}
ATP-binding site
NAME: ATP-binding site
SITE: 504-511
glycine-rich region {703-825}
MOTIF: binding site
SITE: 714-739
FOR-BINDING-OF: ribonucleic acid
glycine-rich region {740-750}
Database Correlations
OMIM 602869
UniProt Q00839
PFAM correlations
Entrez Gene 3192
Kegg hsa:3192
References
UniProt :accession Q00839
Component-of
mRNP granule complex