plac 9

PLAC9 belongs to the PLAC9 family. PLAC9 gene is a placental-enriched gene. There are other two placental-enriched genes: Plac1 and Plac8. Plac1 is strongly expressed in all trophoblast-derived cells in the placenta and has been described in 2. Plac8 expression is restricted to the spongiotrophoblast layer during development, whereas PLAC9 is weakly expressed though highly enriched in placenta. For both, cDNAs with complete open reading frames were recovered and exon-intron structures inferred from comparisons of mouse cDNA and genomic sequence. The predicted proteins both contain putative signal peptides, with a coiled-coil segment of mPLAC9 as the only other detected motif. Genomic sequence comparisons reveal that in addition to an apparent pseudogene on chromosome 1, Plac8 is expressed at mouse cytoband 5e3.

EIF3K is a member of the eIF3 subunit K family. It is a component of the eukaryotic translation initiation factor 3 (eIF-3) complex, which is required for several steps in the initiation of protein synthesis. The eIF-3 complex associates with the 4S ribosome and facilitates the recruitment of eIF-1, eIF-1A, eIF-2:GTP:methionyl-tRNAi and eIF-5 to form the 43S preinitiation complex (43S PIC). It stimulates mRNA recruitment to the 43S PIC and scanning of the mRNA for AUG recognition. EIF3K is universally expressed in human tissues. It is distributed both in nucleus and cytoplasm. EIF3K is the smallest subunit of eIF3 and it interacts with a number of other subunits of eIF3 and the 4S ribosomal subunit.