Vimentin 3′ UTR protein-binding region

The vimentin 3′ UTR protein-binding region is an RNA element that contains a Y-shaped structure which has been shown to have protein-binding activity.^[1] The same region has been implicated in the control of mRNA localisation to the perinuclear region of the cytoplasm, possibly at sites of intermediate filament assembly.^[2] The identity of the proteins involved and the localisation mechanism are not known.

Vimentin 3′ UTR protein-binding region
Predicted secondary structure and sequence conservation of Vimentin3
Identifiers
Symbol	Vimentin3
Rfam	RF00109
Other data
RNA type	Cis-reg
Domain(s)	Eukaryota
SO	SO:0000205
PDB structures	PDBe