DCPS

This gene encodes a member of the histidine triad family of pyrophosphatases that removes short mRNA fragments containing the 5′ mRNA cap structure, which appear in the 3′ → 5′ mRNA decay pathway, following deadenylation and exosome-mediated turnover. This enzyme hydrolyzes the triphosphate linkage of the cap structure (7-methylguanosine nucleoside triphosphate) to yield 7-methylguanosine monophosphate and nucleoside diphosphate. It protects the cell from the potentially toxic accumulation of these short, capped mRNA fragments, and regulates the activity of other cap-binding proteins, which are inhibited by their accumulation. It also acts as a transcript-specific modulator of pre-mRNA splicing and microRNA turnover. [provided by RefSeq, Apr 2017]

Description

Decapping enzyme, scavenger

Tissue specificity

Tissue enhanced (liver)

Subcell location

Nucleoplasm, Cytosol

Predicted location

Intracellular

Protein family

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

Chromosome

11 (126304060 - 126350005)

Ensembl ID

ENSG00000110063  (ver. 103.38)

Orthologs

Mouse Dcps: ENSMUSG00000032040

UniProt

Q96C86

neXtProt

NX_Q96C86

Human splice variants
Mouse splice variants

Protein structure