Skip to main content
. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Feb 3.
Published in final edited form as: Biochimie. 2014 Jan 17;100:125–131. doi: 10.1016/j.biochi.2014.01.003

Table 1.

Components of the RNA editing core complex from T. brucei.

Alternative names for proteins Gene ID Proposed function
MP81/KREPA1 Tb927.2.2470 structural, U-insertion subdomain organizer
MP63/KREPA2 Tb927.10.8210 structural, U-deletion subdomain organizer
MP42/KREPA3 Tb927.8.620 structural
MP24/KREPA4 Tb927.10.5110 structural, RNA binding
MP19/KREPA5 Tb927.8.680 structural
MP18/KREPA6 Tb927.10.5120 structural, RNA binding
REN1/KREN1 Tb927.1.1690 insertion site specific endonuclease
REN2/KREN2 Tb927.10.5440 deletion site specific endonuclease
REN3/KREN3 Tb927.10.5320 cis-editing site specific endonuclease
MP46/KREPB4 Tb927.11.2990 structural, heterodimer with endonuclease
MP44/KREPB5 Tb927.11.940 structural, endonuclease
MP49/KREPB6 Tb927.3.3990 structural, part of KREN3 module
MP47/KREPB7 Tb927.9.5630 structural, part of KREN2 module
MP41/KREPB8 Tb927.9.5630 structural, part of KREN1 module
REX1/KREX1 Tb927.7.1070 U-specific exonuclease
REX2/KREX2 Tb927.10.3570 U-specific exonuclease
REL1/KREL1 Tb927.9.4360 RNA ligase
REL2/KREL2 Tb927.1.3030 RNA ligase
RET2/KRET2 Tb927.7.1550 TUTase

Two alternative nomenclatures are used in the current literature to describe RECC subunits [85;102]. Gene identification numbers are provided according to TriTrypDB 5.0 database release (http://tritrypdb.org/tritrypdb/).