Small nucleolar RNA SNORA63

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Small nucleolar RNA SNORA63
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Identifiers
SymbolSNORA63
Alt. SymbolsE3
Rfam RF00092
Other data
RNA type Gene; snRNA; snoRNA; HACA-box
Domain(s) Eukaryota
GO GO:0006396 GO:0005730
SO SO:0000594
PDB structures PDBe

In molecular biology, Small nucleolar RNA SNORA63 (E3) is part of the H/ACA class of snoRNAs. It plays a role in the processing of eukaryotic pre-rRNA and has regions of complementarity to 18S rRNA. E3 is encoded within the introns of the gene for protein synthesis initiation factor 4AII. [1]

References

  1. Mishra RK, Eliceiri GL (May 1997). "Three small nucleolar RNAs that are involved in ribosomal RNA precursor processing". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 94 (10): 4972–7. Bibcode:1997PNAS...94.4972M. doi: 10.1073/pnas.94.10.4972 . PMC   24615 . PMID   9144174.