PTBP1

polypyrimidine tract binding protein 1

Summary

This gene belongs to the subfamily of ubiquitously expressed heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoproteins (hnRNPs). The hnRNPs are RNA-binding proteins and they complex with heterogeneous nuclear RNA (hnRNA). These proteins are associated with pre-mRNAs in the nucleus and appear to influence pre-mRNA processing and other aspects of mRNA metabolism and transport. While all of the hnRNPs are present in the nucleus, some seem to shuttle between the nucleus and the cytoplasm. The hnRNP proteins have distinct nucleic acid binding properties. The protein encoded by this gene has four repeats of quasi-RNA recognition motif (RRM) domains that bind RNAs. This protein binds to the intronic polypyrimidine tracts that requires pre-mRNA splicing and acts via the protein degradation ubiquitin-proteasome pathway. It may also promote the binding of U2 snRNP to pre-mRNAs. This protein is localized in the nucleoplasm and it is also detected in the perinucleolar structure. Alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been described. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]

Known Variants50 total

rsidPosition (GRCh37)AllelesClassClinVar
rs35197419:797,079A/Cregulatory region variant—
rs214500846019:797,498A/G—pathogenic
rs159921032519:797,499T/C—pathogenic
rs1041437919:797,517G/C—benign
rs811097419:798,643G/Aregulatory region variant—
rs14266439619:798,790A/G——
rs1108522619:799,770A/Gregulatory region variant—
rs73692619:801,381C/Tregulatory region variant—
rs77951419119:803,603C/T—uncertain significance
rs126861510919:803,609A/G—uncertain significance
rs173951065319:804,095A/G—uncertain significance
rs6175778319:804,142A/Gsynonymous variant—
rs6175778419:804,184C/T—likely benign
rs159922829419:804,366G/A—likely benign
rs18390307019:804,442C/T—likely benign
rs75940303219:804,542C/T—uncertain significance
rs251207371319:804,560A/G—uncertain significance
rs75543439819:804,602C/T—uncertain significance
rs135991157319:804,606C/T—likely benign
rs75358415119:804,608T/C—uncertain significance
rs15066103119:804,613G/A—likely benign
rs251207402419:804,621G/A—uncertain significance
rs117972667019:804,660G/A—likely benign
rs75626093519:804,916G/C—uncertain significance
rs1215109019:804,921C/T—benign
rs75719370819:805,006C/T—likely benign
rs77611197619:805,051G/T—likely benign
rs77574959119:805,056G/T—uncertain significance
rs130391510219:805,080G/C—uncertain significance
rs135676642819:805,130G/A—uncertain significance
rs251207719419:805,140C/T—uncertain significance
rs132241617619:805,508C/T—likely benign
rs35197819:806,256A/Gregulatory region variant—
rs53513938919:806,431G/A—uncertain significance
rs76221670819:806,434G/A—uncertain significance
rs1154988119:806,469G/A—benign
rs77369262719:806,491A/G—uncertain significance
rs20175524119:806,559A/G—likely benign
rs12369819:807,442G/Cregulatory region variant—
rs14733003719:808,373C/T—benign
rs14321171919:808,415C/T—likely benign
rs105827519:808,631C/T—benign
rs37659089219:808,667C/T—likely benign
rs77718101119:808,672A/G—uncertain significance
rs11616769019:808,673C/T—benign
rs725936619:808,679C/T—benign
rs251209734219:808,701G/A—uncertain significance
rs113590819:808,742G/Asynonymous variant—
rs14649899219:810,598G/A—conflicting classifications of pathogenicity
rs159924808219:810,754C/T—likely benign

Gene information from NCBI Gene. Variant classifications from ClinVar.