hnRNP M (Heterogeneous Nuclear Ribonucleoprotein M, hnRNP M, HNRNPM, HNRPM, NAGR1)

Proteins that directly bind to nascent RNA polymerase II transcripts, the heterogenous nuclear ribonucleoproteins (hnRNPs), play an important role in both transcript-specific packaging and alternative splicing of pre-mRNAs. A group of abundant hnRNPs, the M1-M4 proteins, appear as a cluster of four proteins. The M proteins are pre-mRNA binding proteins in vivo, and they bind avidly to poly (G) and poly (U) RNA homopolymers in vitro. M proteins are members of the ribonucleoprotein consensus sequence family of RNA-binding proteins with greatest similarity to a hypothetical RNA-binding protein from...