TUG1

TUG1 (taurine upregulated gene 1) is a long non-coding RNA expressed in the retina and in the brain. It was first identified in a screen for genes upregulated by in developing retinal cells in response to taurine. It is required for the normal development of photoreceptors in the retina.^[2]

TUG1
Identifiers
Aliases	TUG1, LINC00080, NCRNA00080, TI-227H, taurine up-regulated 1 (non-protein coding)
External IDs	OMIM: 614971; GeneCards: TUG1; OMA:TUG1 - orthologs
Orthologs Species Human Mouse Entrez 55000 n/a Ensembl ENSG00000253352 n/a UniProt n a n/a RefSeq (mRNA) n/a n/a RefSeq (protein) n/a n/a Location (UCSC) n/a n/a PubMed search [1] n/a
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See also

• Long noncoding RNA