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Cancer tissues showed weak to moderate cytoplasmic staining. Additional membranous and nuclear positivity in a few cases. Several cases of urothelial cancers displayed moderate to strong cytoplasmic staining. Gliomas and lymphomas were weakly stained or negative.
This gene encodes a class-1 polypeptide chain release factor. The encoded protein plays an essential role in directing termination of mRNA translation from the termination codons UAA, UAG and UGA. This protein is a component of the SURF complex which promotes degradation of prematurely terminated mRNAs via the mechanism of nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD). Alternate splicing results in multiple transcript variants. Pseudogenes of this gene are found on chromosomes 6, 7, and X. [provided by RefSeq, Aug 2013]