Protein Name maternally expressed 3
Organism Homo sapiens
Gene ID 55384
Gene Symbol

MEG3

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Relationships Total Number of functionally related compound(s) : 119
Total Number of Articles : 166
Description

maternally expressed 3

Gene Summary

This gene is a maternally expressed imprinted gene. Multiple alternatively spliced transcript variants have been transcribed from this gene and all of them are long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs). This gene is expressed in many normal tissues, but its expression is lost in multiple cancer cell lines of various tissue origins. It inhibits tumor cell proliferation in vitro. It also interacts with the tumor suppressor p53, and regulates p53 target gene expression. Its deletion enhances angiogenesis in vivo. Many experimental evidences demonstrate that this gene is a lncRNA tumor suppressor. [provided by RefSeq, Mar 2012]

synonyms
  • Very putative protein from MEG3 locus
  • gene trap locus 2
  • long intergenic non-protein coding RNA 23
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