WDR3

WD repeat domain 3
Identifiers
Symbols WDR3 ; DIP2; UTP12
External IDs OMIM: 604737 MGI: 2443143 HomoloGene: 4937 GeneCards: WDR3 Gene
RNA expression pattern
More reference expression data
Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez 10885 269470
Ensembl ENSG00000065183 ENSMUSG00000033285
UniProt Q9UNX4 Q8BHB4
RefSeq (mRNA) NM_006784 NM_175552
RefSeq (protein) NP_006775 NP_780761
Location (UCSC) Chr 1:
117.93 – 117.97 Mb
Chr 3:
100.14 – 100.16 Mb
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WD repeat-containing protein 3 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the WDR3 gene.[1][2]

This gene encodes a nuclear protein containing 10 WD repeats. WD repeats are approximately 30- to 40-amino acid domains containing several conserved residues, which usually include a trp-asp at the C-terminal end. Proteins belonging to the WD repeat family are involved in a variety of cellular processes, including cell cycle progression, signal transduction, apoptosis, and gene regulation.[2]

Model organisms

Model organisms have been used in the study of WDR3 function. A conditional knockout mouse line, called Wdr3tm1a(KOMP)Wtsi[7][8] was generated as part of the International Knockout Mouse Consortium program — a high-throughput mutagenesis project to generate and distribute animal models of disease to interested scientists.[9][10][11]

Male and female animals underwent a standardized phenotypic screen to determine the effects of deletion.[5][12] Twenty four tests were carried out on mutant mice and two significant abnormalities were observed.[5] No homozygous mutant embryos were identified during gestation, and therefore none survived until weaning. The remaining tests were carried out on heterozygous mutant adult mice; no additional significant abnormalities were observed in these animals. [5]

References

  1. Claudio JO, Liew CC, Ma J, Heng HH, Stewart AK, Hawley RG (Aug 1999). "Cloning and expression analysis of a novel WD repeat gene, WDR3, mapping to 1p12-p13". Genomics 59 (1): 85–9. doi:10.1006/geno.1999.5858. PMID 10395803.
  2. 1 2 "Entrez Gene: WDR3 WD repeat domain 3".
  3. "Salmonella infection data for Wdr3". Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.
  4. "Citrobacter infection data for Wdr3". Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.
  5. 1 2 3 4 Gerdin AK (2010). "The Sanger Mouse Genetics Programme: High throughput characterisation of knockout mice". Acta Ophthalmologica 88: 925–7. doi:10.1111/j.1755-3768.2010.4142.x.
  6. Mouse Resources Portal, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.
  7. "International Knockout Mouse Consortium".
  8. "Mouse Genome Informatics".
  9. Skarnes, W. C.; Rosen, B.; West, A. P.; Koutsourakis, M.; Bushell, W.; Iyer, V.; Mujica, A. O.; Thomas, M.; Harrow, J.; Cox, T.; Jackson, D.; Severin, J.; Biggs, P.; Fu, J.; Nefedov, M.; De Jong, P. J.; Stewart, A. F.; Bradley, A. (2011). "A conditional knockout resource for the genome-wide study of mouse gene function". Nature 474 (7351): 337–342. doi:10.1038/nature10163. PMC 3572410. PMID 21677750.
  10. Dolgin E (2011). "Mouse library set to be knockout". Nature 474 (7351): 262–3. doi:10.1038/474262a. PMID 21677718.
  11. Collins FS, Rossant J, Wurst W (2007). "A Mouse for All Reasons". Cell 128 (1): 9–13. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2006.12.018. PMID 17218247.
  12. van der Weyden L, White JK, Adams DJ, Logan DW (2011). "The mouse genetics toolkit: revealing function and mechanism.". Genome Biol 12 (6): 224. doi:10.1186/gb-2011-12-6-224. PMC 3218837. PMID 21722353.

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