mRNA-capping enzyme regulatory subunit OPG124

UniProtKB accession:  P20980

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UniProtKB description:  Regulatory subunit of the mRNA cap enzyme which stabilizes the catalytic subunit and enhances its methyltransferase activity through an allosteric mechanism. Heterodimeric mRNA capping enzyme catalyzes the linkage of a N7-methyl-guanosine moiety to the first transcribed nucleotide (cap 0 structure), whereas the methyltransferase OPG102 is responsible for a second methylation at the 2'-O position of the ribose (cap 1 structure). Also involved in early viral gene transcription termination and intermediate viral gene transcription initiation. Early gene transcription termination requires the termination factor VTF, the DNA-dependent ATPase NPH-I/OPG123 and the RAP94/OPG109 subunit of the viral RNA polymerase, as well as the presence of a specific termination motif. Binds, together with RAP94/OPG109, to the termination motif 5'-UUUUUNU-3' in the nascent early mRNA.