RIBOc

Ribonuclease III family
RIBOc
SMART accession number:SM00535
Description: -
Interpro abstract (IPR000999):

This domain is found in eukaryotic, bacterial and archeal ribonuclease III (RNAse III) proteins. RNAse III is a double stranded RNA-specific endonuclease [ (PUBMED:11738048) (PUBMED:15016361) ]. Prokaryotic RNAse III is important in post-transcriptional control of mRNA stability and translational efficiency. It is involved in the processing of ribosomal RNA precursors. Prokaryotic RNAse III also plays a role in the maturation of tRNA precursors and in the processing of phage and plasmid transcripts. Eukaryotic RNase III's participate (through direct cleavage) in rRNA processing, in processing of small nucleolar RNAs (snoRNAs) and snRNA's (components of the spliceosome). In eukaryotes RNase III or RNaseIII like enzymes such as Dicer are involved in RNAi (RNA interference) and miRNA (micro-RNA) gene silencing [ (PUBMED:14983173) (PUBMED:15066275) (PUBMED:11809414) ].

GO process:RNA processing (GO:0006396)
GO function:ribonuclease III activity (GO:0004525)
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There are 34155 RIBOc domains in 30210 proteins in SMART's nrdb database.

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