UPF3A

This gene encodes a protein that is part of a post-splicing multiprotein complex involved in both mRNA nuclear export and mRNA surveillance. The encoded protein is one of two functional homologs to yeast Upf3p. mRNA surveillance detects exported mRNAs with truncated open reading frames and initiates nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD). When translation ends upstream from the last exon-exon junction, this triggers NMD to degrade mRNAs containing premature stop codons. This protein binds to the mRNA and remains bound after nuclear export, acting as a nucleocytoplasmic shuttling protein. It forms with Y14 a complex that binds specifically 20 nt upstream of exon-exon junctions. This gene is located on the long arm of chromosome 13. Several splice variants encoding different isoforms have been found for this gene. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2017]

Description

UPF3A regulator of nonsense mediated mRNA decay

Tissue specificity

Low tissue specificity

Subcell location

Nucleoplasm, Vesicles, Cytosol

Predicted location

Intracellular

Protein family

Mapped to neXtProt
Mapped to UniProt SWISS-PROT
Predicted intracellular proteins
Protein evidence (Ezkurdia et al 2014)
Protein evidence (Kim et al 2014)

Chromosome

13 (114281601 - 114305817)

Ensembl ID

ENSG00000169062  (ver. 103.38)

Orthologs

Mouse Upf3a: ENSMUSG00000038398

UniProt

Q9H1J1

neXtProt

NX_Q9H1J1

Human splice variants
Mouse splice variants

Protein structure