Nucleolin is a protein that in humans is encoded by the NCL gene.[5][6]
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The human NCL gene is located on chromosome 2 and consists of 14 exons with 13 introns and spans approximately 11kb. Intron 11 of the NCL gene encodes a small nucleolar RNA, termed U20.[7]
Nucleolin is the major nucleolar protein of growing eukaryotic cells. It is found associated with intranucleolar chromatin and pre-ribosomal particles. It induces chromatin decondensation by binding to histone H1. It is thought to play a role in pre-rRNA transcription and ribosome assembly. May play a role in the process of transcriptional elongation. Binds RNA oligonucleotides with 5'-UUAGGG-3' repeats more tightly than the telomeric single-stranded DNA 5'-TTAGGG-3' repeats.
Nucleolin is also able to act as a transcriptional coactivator with Chicken Ovalbumin Upstream Promoter Transcription Factor II (COUP-TFII).[8]
Midkine and pleiotrophin bind to cell-surface nucleolin as a low affinity receptor. This binding can inhibit HIV infection.[9][10]
Nucleolin at the cell surface is the receptor for the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) fusion protein.[11] Interference with the nucleolin–RSV fusion protein interaction has been shown to be therapeutic against RSV infection in cell cultures and animal models.[12][13][14][15]
Nucleolin has been shown to interact with:
- MTDH,[16]
- CSNK2A2,[17]
- Centaurin, alpha 1,[18]
- HuR,[19]
- NPM1,[20]
- P53,[21]
- PPP1CB,[22]
- S100A11,[23]
- Sjögren syndrome antigen B,[24]
- TOP1,[25][26] and
- Telomerase reverse transcriptase.[27]
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- Tuteja N, Huang NW, Skopac D, Tuteja R, Hrvatic S, Zhang J, Pongor S, Joseph G, Faucher C, Amalric F (Jul 1995). "Human DNA helicase IV is nucleolin, an RNA helicase modulated by phosphorylation". Gene. 160 (2): 143–8. doi:10.1016/0378-1119(95)00207-M. PMID 7642087.
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