Small nucleolar RNA SNORD21 | |
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Identifiers | |
Symbol | SNORD21 |
Alt. Symbols | U21 |
Rfam | RF00068 |
Other data | |
RNA type | Gene; snRNA; snoRNA; CD-box |
Domain(s) | Eukaryota |
GO | GO:0006396 GO:0005730 |
SO | SO:0000593 |
PDB structures | PDBe |
In molecular biology, U21 is a member of the C/D class of snoRNA which contain the C (UGAUGA) and D (CUGA) box motifs. U21 is encoded within an intron of the gene for ribosomal protein L5 in mammals,[1] but within introns of the ADP ribosylation factor gene in Drosophila.[2] U21 snoRNA has a 13 nucleotide region of complementarity with an invariant region of eukaryotic 28S ribosomal RNA.