MTERF

Mitochondrial transcription termination factor
Identifiers
Symbols	MTERF ; MGC131634
External IDs	Template:OMIM5 Template:MGI HomoloGene: 5073
Gene ontology Molecular function Template:GNF GO Template:GNF GO Template:GNF GO Cellular component Template:GNF GO Biological process Template:GNF GO Template:GNF GO Template:GNF GO
RNA expression pattern
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More reference expression data
Orthologs
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Species	Human	Mouse
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Mitochondrial transcription termination factor, also known as MTERF, is a human gene.

This gene encodes a mitochondrial transcription termination factor. This protein participates in attenuating transcription from the mitochondrial genome; this attenuation allows higher levels of expression of 16S ribosomal RNA relative to the tRNA gene downstream. The product of this gene has three leucine zipper motifs bracketed by two basic domains that are all required for DNA binding. There is evidence that, for this protein, the zippers participate in intramolecular interactions that establish the three-dimensional structure required for DNA binding.

Further reading

• Daga A, Micol V, Hess D; et al. (1993). "Molecular characterization of the transcription termination factor from human mitochondria". J. Biol. Chem. 268 (11): 8123–30. PMID 7681833.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Maruyama K, Sugano S (1994). "Oligo-capping: a simple method to replace the cap structure of eukaryotic mRNAs with oligoribonucleotides". Gene. 138 (1–2): 171–4. PMID 8125298.
• Fernandez-Silva P, Martinez-Azorin F, Micol V, Attardi G (1997). "The human mitochondrial transcription termination factor (mTERF) is a multizipper protein but binds to DNA as a monomer, with evidence pointing to intramolecular leucine zipper interactions". EMBO J. 16 (5): 1066–79. doi:10.1093/emboj/16.5.1066. PMID 9118945.CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Suzuki Y, Yoshitomo-Nakagawa K, Maruyama K; et al. (1997). "Construction and characterization of a full length-enriched and a 5'-end-enriched cDNA library". Gene. 200 (1–2): 149–56. PMID 9373149.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• "Toward a complete human genome sequence". Genome Res. 8 (11): 1097–108. 1999. PMID 9847074.
• Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH; et al. (2003). "Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99 (26): 16899–903. doi:10.1073/pnas.242603899. PMID 12477932.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Scherer SW, Cheung J, MacDonald JR; et al. (2003). "Human chromosome 7: DNA sequence and biology". Science. 300 (5620): 767–72. doi:10.1126/science.1083423. PMID 12690205.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Hillier LW, Fulton RS, Fulton LA; et al. (2003). "The DNA sequence of human chromosome 7". Nature. 424 (6945): 157–64. doi:10.1038/nature01782. PMID 12853948.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Asin-Cayuela J, Helm M, Attardi G (2004). "A monomer-to-trimer transition of the human mitochondrial transcription termination factor (mTERF) is associated with a loss of in vitro activity". J. Biol. Chem. 279 (15): 15670–7. doi:10.1074/jbc.M312537200. PMID 14744862.CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Prieto-Martín A, Montoya J, Martínez-Azorín F (2004). "Phosphorylation of rat mitochondrial transcription termination factor (mTERF) is required for transcription termination but not for binding to DNA". Nucleic Acids Res. 32 (7): 2059–68. doi:10.1093/nar/gkh528. PMID 15087485.CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Gerhard DS, Wagner L, Feingold EA; et al. (2004). "The status, quality, and expansion of the NIH full-length cDNA project: the Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC)". Genome Res. 14 (10B): 2121–7. doi:10.1101/gr.2596504. PMID 15489334.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Asin-Cayuela J, Schwend T, Farge G, Gustafsson CM (2005). "The human mitochondrial transcription termination factor (mTERF) is fully active in vitro in the non-phosphorylated form". J. Biol. Chem. 280 (27): 25499–505. doi:10.1074/jbc.M501145200. PMID 15899902.CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Hyvärinen AK, Pohjoismäki JL, Reyes A; et al. (2007). "The mitochondrial transcription termination factor mTERF modulates replication pausing in human mitochondrial DNA". Nucleic Acids Res. 35 (19): 6458–74. doi:10.1093/nar/gkm676. PMID 17884915.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)