NPPA-AS1 (gene)

In molecular biology, NPPA antisense RNA 1 (non-protein coding), also known as NPPA-AS1 is a long non-coding RNA. It is an antisense transcript of the NPPA gene, which encodes the precursor of cardiodilatin-related peptide and atrial natriuretic factor. NPPA-AS1 is alternatively spliced. At least one isoform of NPPA-AS1 can regulate the expression of spliced and unspliced variants of NPPA, possibly by the formation of duplexes with NPPA mRNA.^[1]

See also

• Long noncoding RNA

References

1. ^ Annilo T, Kepp K, Laan M (2009). "Natural antisense transcript of natriuretic peptide precursor A (NPPA): structural organization and modulation of NPPA expression.". BMC Mol Biol 10: 81. doi:10.1186/1471-2199-10-81. PMC 2731763. PMID 19671135. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=19671135.