NCOA5
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Nuclear receptor coactivator 5 (NCOA5), also known as coactivator independent of AF-2 function (CIA), is a protein
Protein
Proteins are biochemical compounds consisting of one or more polypeptides typically folded into a globular or fibrous form, facilitating a biological function. A polypeptide is a single linear polymer chain of amino acids bonded together by peptide bonds between the carboxyl and amino groups of...

 that in humans is encoded by the NCOA5 gene
Gene
A gene is a molecular unit of heredity of a living organism. It is a name given to some stretches of DNA and RNA that code for a type of protein or for an RNA chain that has a function in the organism. Living beings depend on genes, as they specify all proteins and functional RNA chains...

.

Function

This gene encodes a coregulator for the alpha and beta estrogen receptor
Estrogen receptor
Estrogen receptor refers to a group of receptors that are activated by the hormone 17β-estradiol . Two types of estrogen receptor exist: ER, which is a member of the nuclear hormone family of intracellular receptors, and the estrogen G protein-coupled receptor GPR30 , which is a G protein-coupled...

s and the orphan nuclear receptor Rev-ErbA beta
Rev-ErbA beta
Rev-ErbA beta also known as NR1D2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the NR1D2 gene.Rev-erbβ is a member of the Rev-ErbA family of transcription factors...

. The protein localizes to the nucleus, and is thought to have both coactivator
Coactivator (genetics)
A coactivator is a protein that increases gene expression by binding to an activator which contains a DNA binding domain. The coactivator is unable to bind DNA by itself....

 and corepressor
Corepressor (genetics)
In molecular genetics, a corepressor is a substance that inhibits the expression of genes. A corepressor downregulates the expression of genes not through direct interaction with a gene promoter , but rather indirectly through interaction with repressor proteins that in turn bind to the...

functions. Its interaction with nuclear receptors is independent of the AF2 domain on the receptors, which is known to regulate interaction with other coreceptors. Two alternatively spliced transcript variants for this gene have been described. However, the full length nature of one of the variants has not been determined.

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