WRAP53

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]

Description

WD repeat containing antisense to TP53

Tissue specificity

Low tissue specificity

Subcell location

Nucleoplasm, Nuclear bodies, Cytosol

Predicted location

Intracellular

Protein family

Disease related genes
Human disease related genes
Mapped to neXtProt
Mapped to UniProt SWISS-PROT
Predicted intracellular proteins
Protein evidence (Ezkurdia et al 2014)
Protein evidence (Kim et al 2014)

Chromosome

17 (7686071 - 7703502)

Ensembl ID

ENSG00000141499  (ver. 103.38)

Orthologs

Mouse Wrap53: ENSMUSG00000041346

UniProt

Q9BUR4

neXtProt

NX_Q9BUR4

Human splice variants
Mouse splice variants

Protein structure