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Structural highlights

Function

[LORF1_HUMAN] Nucleic acid-binding protein which is essential for retrotransposition of LINE-1 elements in the genome. May function as a nucleic acid chaperone binding its own transcript and therefore preferentially mobilizing the transcript from which they are encoded.^{[1] [2] [3]}

References

1. ↑ Wei W, Gilbert N, Ooi SL, Lawler JF, Ostertag EM, Kazazian HH, Boeke JD, Moran JV. Human L1 retrotransposition: cis preference versus trans complementation. Mol Cell Biol. 2001 Feb;21(4):1429-39. PMID:11158327 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/MCB.21.4.1429-1439.2001
2. ↑ Callahan KE, Hickman AB, Jones CE, Ghirlando R, Furano AV. Polymerization and nucleic acid-binding properties of human L1 ORF1 protein. Nucleic Acids Res. 2012 Jan;40(2):813-27. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkr728. Epub 2011 Sep , 21. PMID:21937507 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkr728
3. ↑ Moran JV, Holmes SE, Naas TP, DeBerardinis RJ, Boeke JD, Kazazian HH Jr. High frequency retrotransposition in cultured mammalian cells. Cell. 1996 Nov 29;87(5):917-27. PMID:8945518