SFRS8: Proteins and Enzymes

SFRS8 regulates the splicing of CD45, a protein which through alternative splice variants, has an essential role in activating T cells. T cells are involved in the pathogenesis of atopic diseases such as asthma, making SFRS8 a very interesting candidate gene in the region. SFRS8 could act as a weak predisposing gene for asthma. [from: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez®cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=16738036&dopt=Abstract] The basic functions of SFRS8 are the mediation of protein-protein interactions within the intron during spliceosome assembly, independently binding to exonic enhancer sequences, and recruiting components to adjacent introns for splice-site recognition and alternative splicing. [from: http://www.dsi.univ-paris5.fr/genatlas/fiche1.php®symbol=SFRS8]