 | This article may be too technical for most readers to understand.(August 2016) |
| Vts1 | |||||||||
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 Crystal structure of Vts1p–SRE complex. [1] | |||||||||
| Identifiers | |||||||||
| Symbol | Vts1 | ||||||||
| Pfam | PF07647 | ||||||||
| SCOP2 | 1b0x / SCOPe / SUPFAM | ||||||||
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Vts1 is a post-transcriptional regulator that has RNA-binding Sterile alpha motif (SAM) domain. [2] [3] The protein is found in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and several eukaryotes. In Saccharomyces the Vts1 impacts vesicular transport and sporulation. [4] [5]
Protein-protein interactions through SAM domains participate in different regulatory activities such as signal transduction. Proteins having such domains were also shown to recognize and interact with RNA structures of similar shape to the Smaug response element (SRE). [6] Vts1 binds to RNA targets that have CUGGC on hairpin loops. [7]
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