MALAT1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Aliases | MALAT1 , HCN, LINC00047, MALAT-1, NCRNA00047, NEAT2, PRO2853, mascRNA, metastasis associated lung adenocarcinoma transcript 1 (non-protein coding), metastasis associated lung adenocarcinoma transcript 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
External IDs | OMIM: 607924; GeneCards: MALAT1; OMA:MALAT1 - orthologs | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Conserved secondary structure in Metastasis associated lung adenocarcinoma transcript 1 | |
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![]() Predicted secondary structure and sequence conservation of MALAT1 | |
Identifiers | |
Symbol | MALAT1 |
Rfam | RF01871 |
Other data | |
RNA type | Gene; |
Domain(s) | Eukaryota; |
GO | GO:2000147 |
SO | SO:0001263 |
PDB structures | PDBe |
MALAT1 (Metastasis Associated Lung Adenocarcinoma Transcript 1) also known as NEAT2 (Nuclear-Enriched Abundant Transcript 2) is an infrequently spliced long non-coding RNA, which is highly conserved amongst mammals and highly expressed in the nucleus. [3] It regulates the expression of metastasis-associated genes. [4] It also positively regulates cell motility via the transcriptional and/or post-transcriptional regulation of motility-related genes. [5] MALAT1 may play a role in temperature-dependent sex determination in the Red-eared slider turtle ( Trachemys scripta ). [6]
Transcripts of MALAT1 are significantly increased in the cerebellum of human alcoholics, as well as in similar regions of rat brains after the withdrawal of ethanol vapours. This alcohol-induced upregulation of MALAT1 may be responsible for differential expression of a number of proteins which contribute to ethanol tolerance and dependency in humans. [7]
Elevated MALAT1 expression is correlated with poor overall survival in various types of cancer, suggesting that this gene is a prognostic factor for different types of cancer. [8] [9]