Protein pelota homolog is a protein that in humans is encoded by the PELOgene.[5][6]
This gene encodes a protein which contains a conserved nuclear localization signal. The encoded protein may have a role in spermatogenesis, cell cycle control, and in meiotic cell division.[6] In yeasts, the Dom34-Hbs1 complex (with ABCE1) that it forms is responsible for reactivating ribosomes and for recovering those stuck on mRNAs.[7] It is a paralog of the release factoreRF1.
The Drosophila homolog was first discovered in 1993. Mutants exhibit G2/M arrest in meiosis and large nebenkern form in late spermatocytes.[8] Human, yeast (Dom34), plant, and worm homologs are reported in 1995,[9] followed by one found in archaea.[10]
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^Shamsadin R, Adham IM, von Beust G, Engel W (Nov 2000). "Molecular cloning, expression and chromosome location of the human pelota gene PELO". Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics. 90 (1–2): 75–8. doi:10.1159/000015667. PMID11060452. S2CID35316587.
^Eberhart CG, Wasserman SA (October 1995). "The pelota locus encodes a protein required for meiotic cell division: an analysis of G2/M arrest in Drosophila spermatogenesis". Development. 121 (10): 3477–86. doi:10.1242/dev.121.10.3477. PMID7588080.