PURA
Protein-coding gene in the species Homo sapiens / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Pur-alpha is a protein that in humans is encoded by the PURA gene[5] located at chromosome 5, band q31.[6][7]
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Pur-alpha is an ancient, multi-functional DNA- and RNA-binding protein.[5][8] PURA is expressed in every human tissue, where it exists as a protein of 322 amino acids. According to convention, PURA, the gene, is written italicized in all upper case letters. Pur-alpha, the protein, is written with the first letter capitalized and can be found listed as Pur-alpha, Pur-α, Pura, Puralpha, Pur alpha and Pur1.