Polyadenylate-binding protein 2 (PABP-2) also known as polyadenylate-binding nuclear protein 1 (PABPN1) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the PABPN1gene.[5][6] PABN1 is a member of a larger family of poly(A)-binding proteins in the human genome.
This gene encodes an abundant nuclear protein that binds with high affinity to nascent poly(A) tails. The protein is required for progressive and efficient polymerization of poly(A) tails on the 3' ends of eukaryotic genes and controls the size of the poly(A) tail to about 250 nt. At steady-state, this protein is localized in the nucleus whereas a different poly(A) binding protein is localized in the cytoplasm. An expansion of the trinucleotide (GCN) repeat from normal 10 to 11-17 at the 5' end of the coding region of this gene leads to autosomal dominant oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy (OPMD) disease.[7] Multiple splice variants have been described but their full-length nature is not known. One splice variant includes introns 1 and 6 but no protein is formed.[6]
^"Human PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
^"Mouse PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
^Brais B, Xie YG, Sanson M, Morgan K, Weissenbach J, Korczyn AD, Blumen SC, Fardeau M, Tomé FM, Bouchard JP (Aug 1995). "The oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy locus maps to the region of the cardiac alpha and beta myosin heavy chain genes on chromosome 14q11.2-q13". Hum Mol Genet. 4 (3): 429–34. doi:10.1093/hmg/4.3.429. PMID7795598.
van der Sluijs BM, van Engelen BG, Hoefsloot LH (2003). "Oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy (OPMD) due to a small duplication in the PABPN1 gene". Hum. Mutat. 21 (5): 553. doi:10.1002/humu.9138. PMID12673802. S2CID21834985.
Rodríguez M, Camejo C, Bertoni B, Braida C, Rodríguez MM, Brais B, Medici M, Roche L (2005). "(GCG)11 founder mutation in the PABPN1 gene of OPMD Uruguayan families". Neuromuscul. Disord. 15 (2): 185–90. doi:10.1016/j.nmd.2004.10.012. PMID15694141. S2CID34476481.
Goh KJ, Wong KT, Nishino I, Minami N, Nonaka I (2005). "Oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy with PABPN1 mutation in a Chinese Malaysian woman". Neuromuscul. Disord. 15 (3): 262–4. doi:10.1016/j.nmd.2004.10.016. PMID15725589. S2CID20351112.
Dion P, Shanmugam V, Gaspar C, Messaed C, Meijer I, Toulouse A, Laganiere J, Roussel J, Rochefort D, Laganiere S, Allen C, Karpati G, Bouchard JP, Brais B, Rouleau GA (2005). "Transgenic expression of an expanded (GCG)13 repeat PABPN1 leads to weakness and coordination defects in mice". Neurobiol. Dis. 18 (3): 528–36. doi:10.1016/j.nbd.2004.09.021. PMID15755680. S2CID39329667.