Aly Proteins and Enzymes

Pre-mRNA splicing plays an important role in regulation of gene expression. During the splicing process, specific proteins are recruited to the mRNA and assembled into a complex of mRNA-protein near the exon-exon junction. This complex is termed the mRNA-protein complex (mRNP) or the exon-exon junction complex. The proteins that are found in this complex include: Y14, magoh, Aly/REF, RNPS1, Upf3, and DEK.1-5 Aly (also known as mREF1-I) is the mammalian homologue of the yeast mRNA export factor ...