Description: Homo sapiens DEAD (Asp-Glu-Ala-Asp) box polypeptide 4 (DDX4), transcript variant 4, mRNA. RefSeq Summary (NM_001166534): DEAD box proteins, characterized by the conserved motif Asp-Glu-Ala-Asp (DEAD), are putative RNA helicases. They are implicated in a number of cellular processes involving alteration of RNA secondary structure such as translation initiation, nuclear and mitochondrial splicing, and ribosome and spliceosome assembly. Based on their distribution patterns, some members of this family are believed to be involved in embryogenesis, spermatogenesis, and cellular growth and division. This gene encodes a DEAD box protein, which is a homolog of VASA proteins in Drosophila and several other species. The gene is specifically expressed in the germ cell lineage in both sexes and functions in germ cell development. Multiple transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been found for this gene. [provided by RefSeq, Oct 2009]. Transcript (Including UTRs) Position: hg19 chr5:55,062,713-55,112,974 Size: 50,262 Total Exon Count: 15 Strand: + Coding Region Position: hg19 chr5:55,062,758-55,112,368 Size: 49,611 Coding Exon Count: 15
ID:E9PCD8_HUMAN DESCRIPTION: SubName: Full=Probable ATP-dependent RNA helicase DDX4; SIMILARITY: Belongs to the DEAD box helicase family. CAUTION: The sequence shown here is derived from an Ensembl automatic analysis pipeline and should be considered as preliminary data.
The RNAfold program from the Vienna RNA Package is used to perform the secondary structure predictions and folding calculations. The estimated folding energy is in kcal/mol. The more negative the energy, the more secondary structure the RNA is likely to have.
ModBase Predicted Comparative 3D Structure on E9PCD8
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Orthologous Genes in Other Species
Orthologies between human, mouse, and rat are computed by taking the best BLASTP hit, and filtering out non-syntenic hits. For more distant species reciprocal-best BLASTP hits are used. Note that the absence of an ortholog in the table below may reflect incomplete annotations in the other species rather than a true absence of the orthologous gene.