FUNCTION: Component of the HUSH complex, a multiprotein complex that mediates epigenetic repression (PubMed:26022416, PubMed:28581500). The HUSH complex is recruited to genomic loci rich in H3K9me3 and is required to maintain transcriptional silencing by promoting recruitment of SETDB1, a histone me...
FUNCTION: Component of the HUSH complex, a multiprotein complex that mediates epigenetic repression (PubMed:26022416, PubMed:28581500). The HUSH complex is recruited to genomic loci rich in H3K9me3 and is required to maintain transcriptional silencing by promoting recruitment of SETDB1, a histone methyltransferase that mediates further deposition of H3K9me3, as well as MORC2 (PubMed:26022416, PubMed:28581500). Also represses L1 retrotransposons in collaboration with MORC2 and, probably, SETDB1, the silencing is dependent of repressive epigenetic modifications, such as H3K9me3 mark. Silencing events often occur within introns of transcriptionally active genes, and lead to the down-regulation of host gene expression (PubMed:29211708). The HUSH complex is also involved in the silencing of unintegrated retroviral DNA by being recruited by ZNF638: some part of the retroviral DNA formed immediately after infection remains unintegrated in the host genome and is transcriptionally repressed (PubMed:30487602). Plays a crucial role in early embryonic development (By similarity). Involved in the organization of spindle poles and spindle apparatus assembly during zygotic division (By similarity). Plays an important role in maintaining epiblast fitness or potency (By similarity). {ECO:0000250|UniProtKB:Q69ZR9, ECO:0000269|PubMed:26022416, ECO:0000269|PubMed:28581500, ECO:0000269|PubMed:29211708, ECO:0000269|PubMed:30487602}.
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GO - Biological processes (BP):
anterior/posterior axis specification, embryo [GO:0008595]; mesodermal to mesenchymal transition involved in gastrulation [GO:0060809]; negative regulation of gene expression, epigenetic [GO:0045814]; negative regulation of single stranded viral RNA replication via double stranded DNA intermediate [...
anterior/posterior axis specification, embryo [GO:0008595]; mesodermal to mesenchymal transition involved in gastrulation [GO:0060809]; negative regulation of gene expression, epigenetic [GO:0045814]; negative regulation of single stranded viral RNA replication via double stranded DNA intermediate [GO:0045869]; positive regulation of DNA methylation-dependent heterochromatin assembly [GO:0090309]; protein localization to heterochromatin [GO:0097355]
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GO - Molecular function (MF):
chromatin binding [GO:0003682]; RNA binding [GO:0003723]...
chromatin binding [GO:0003682]; RNA binding [GO:0003723]
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GO - Cellular component (CC):
heterochromatin [GO:0000792]; nucleoplasm [GO:0005654]...
heterochromatin [GO:0000792]; nucleoplasm [GO:0005654]
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