MEG3

MEG3 (maternally expressed 3) is a maternally expressed, imprinted long non-coding RNA gene.[2] At least 12 different isoforms of MEG3 are generated by alternative splicing.[3] Expression of MEG3 is lost in cancer cells.[3][4] It acts as a growth suppressor in tumour cells, and activates p53.[4][5] A pituitary transcript variant has been associated with inhibited cell proliferation. Studies in mouse and sheep suggest that an upstream intergenic differentially methylated region (IG-DMR) regulates imprinting of the region. The expression profile in mouse of the co-regulated Meg3 and Dlk1 genes suggests a causative role in the pathologies found in uniparental disomy animals, characterized by defects in skeletal muscle maturation, bone formation, placenta size and organization and prenatal lethality. The sheep homolog is associated with the callipyge mutation which in heterozygous individuals affects a muscle-specific long-range control element located in the DLK1-GTL2 intergenic region and results in the callipyge muscular hypertrophy. The non-Mendelian inheritance pattern, known as polar overdominance, likely results from the combination of the cis-effect on the expression levels of genes in the DLK1-GTL2 imprinted domain, and trans interaction between the products of reciprocally imprinted genes.[6]

MEG3
Identifiers
AliasesMEG3, FP504, GTL2, LINC00023, NCRNA00023, PRO0518, PRO2160, prebp1, onco-lncRNA-83, maternally expressed 3 (non-protein coding), maternally expressed 3
External IDsOMIM: 605636 GeneCards: MEG3
Orthologs
SpeciesHumanMouse
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See also
  • Long noncoding RNA

References
  1. "Human PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
  2. "Entrez Gene: MEG3 maternally expressed 3".
  3. Zhang X, Rice K, Wang Y, Chen W, Zhong Y, Nakayama Y, et al. (March 2010). "Maternally expressed gene 3 (MEG3) noncoding ribonucleic acid: isoform structure, expression, and functions". Endocrinology. 151 (3): 939–47. doi:10.1210/en.2009-0657. PMC 2840681. PMID 20032057.
  4. Zhang X, Zhou Y, Mehta KR, Danila DC, Scolavino S, Johnson SR, Klibanski A (November 2003). "A pituitary-derived MEG3 isoform functions as a growth suppressor in tumor cells". The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism. 88 (11): 5119–26. doi:10.1210/jc.2003-030222. PMID 14602737.
  5. Zhou Y, Zhong Y, Wang Y, Zhang X, Batista DL, Gejman R, et al. (August 2007). "Activation of p53 by MEG3 non-coding RNA". The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 282 (34): 24731–42. doi:10.1074/jbc.M702029200. PMID 17569660.
  6. Miyoshi N, Wagatsuma H, Wakana S, Shiroishi T, Nomura M, Aisaka K, et al. (March 2000). "Identification of an imprinted gene, Meg3/Gtl2 and its human homologue MEG3, first mapped on mouse distal chromosome 12 and human chromosome 14q". Genes to Cells. 5 (3): 211–20. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2443.2000.00320.x. PMID 10759892.

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