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Protein pelota homolog

Protein pelota homolog (hPelogta) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the PELO gene.

Last revised
Jun 7, 2026
Read time
≈ 3 min
Length
705 w
Citations
15
Source
PELO
Available structures
PDBOrtholog search: PDBe RCSB
Identifiers
AliasesPELO, PRO1770, CGI-17, pelota homolog (Drosophila), pelota mRNA surveillance and ribosome rescue factor
External IDsOMIM: 605757; MGI: 2145154; HomoloGene: 6835; GeneCards: PELO; OMA:PELO - orthologs
Orthologs
SpeciesHumanMouse
Entrez
Ensembl
UniProt
RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_015946

NM_134058

RefSeq (protein)

NP_057030

NP_598819

Location (UCSC)Chr 5: 52.79 – 52.8 MbChr 13: 115.22 – 115.23 Mb
PubMed search34
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Protein pelota homolog (hPelogta) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the PELO gene.56

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 factor eRF1.

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

References

References

  1. GRCh38: Ensembl release 89: ENSG00000152684Ensembl, May 2017
  2. GRCm38: Ensembl release 89: ENSMUSG00000042275Ensembl, May 2017
  3. "Human PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
  4. "Mouse PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
  5. 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. PMID 11060452. S2CID 35316587.
  6. "Entrez Gene: PELO pelota homolog (Drosophila)".
  7. van den Elzen AM, Schuller A, Green R, Séraphin B (February 2014). "Dom34-Hbs1 mediated dissociation of inactive 80S ribosomes promotes restart of translation after stress". The EMBO Journal. 33 (3): 265–76. doi:10.1002/embj.201386123. PMC 3989619. PMID 24424461.
  8. Castrillon DH, Gönczy P, Alexander S, Rawson R, Eberhart CG, Viswanathan S, et al. (October 1993). "Toward a molecular genetic analysis of spermatogenesis in Drosophila melanogaster: characterization of male-sterile mutants generated by single P element mutagenesis". Genetics. 135 (2): 489–505. doi:10.1093/genetics/135.2.489. PMC 1205651. PMID 8244010.
  9. 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. PMID 7588080.
  10. Ragan MA, Logsdon JM, Sensen CW, Charlebois RL, Doolittle WF (November 1996). "An archaebacterial homolog of pelota, a meiotic cell division protein in eukaryotes". FEMS Microbiology Letters. 144 (2–3): 151–5. doi:10.1111/j.1574-6968.1996.tb08522.x. PMID 8900058.
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