WAPL WAPL cohesin release factor [Homo sapiens (human)] - Gene

Summary

Official Symbol: WAPLprovided by HGNC
Official Full Name: WAPL cohesin release factorprovided by HGNC
Primary source: HGNC:HGNC:23293
See related: Ensembl:ENSG00000062650 MIM:610754; AllianceGenome:HGNC:23293
Gene type: protein coding
RefSeq status: VALIDATED
Organism: Homo sapiens
Lineage: Eukaryota; Metazoa; Chordata; Craniata; Vertebrata; Euteleostomi; Mammalia; Eutheria; Euarchontoglires; Primates; Haplorrhini; Catarrhini; Hominidae; Homo
Also known as: FOE; WAPAL; KIAA0261
Summary: Enables ATP-dependent protein-DNA unloader activity. Involved in several processes, including mitotic sister chromatid segregation; negative regulation of DNA replication; and negative regulation of sister chromatid cohesion. Located in several cellular components, including intercellular bridge; mitotic spindle; and nucleoplasm. [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Dec 2024]
Expression: Ubiquitous expression in testis (RPKM 17.0), lymph node (RPKM 9.9) and 25 other tissues See more
Orthologs: mouse all
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Genomic context

Location:: 10q23.2

Exon count:: 19

Annotation release	Status	Assembly	Chr	Location
RS_2024_08	current	GRCh38.p14 (GCF_000001405.40)	10	NC_000010.11 (86435256..86521792, complement)
RS_2024_08	current	T2T-CHM13v2.0 (GCF_009914755.1)	10	NC_060934.1 (87315788..87405903, complement)
RS_2024_09	previous assembly	GRCh37.p13 (GCF_000001405.25)	10	NC_000010.10 (88195013..88281549, complement)

Chromosome 10 - NC_000010.11 Genomic Context describing neighboring genes

Genomic regions, transcripts, and products

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Genomic Sequence:

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Expression

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Project title: HPA RNA-seq normal tissues
Description: RNA-seq was performed of tissue samples from 95 human individuals representing 27 different tissues in order to determine tissue-specificity of all protein-coding genes
BioProject: PRJEB4337
Publication: PMID 24309898
Analysis date: Wed Apr 4 07:08:55 2018

Bibliography

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GeneRIFs: Gene References Into Functions

What's a GeneRIF?

A Mediator-cohesin axis controls heterochromatin domain formation.
Title: A Mediator-cohesin axis controls heterochromatin domain formation.
WAPL induces cervical intraepithelial neoplasia modulated with estrogen signaling without HPV E6/E7.
Title: WAPL induces cervical intraepithelial neoplasia modulated with estrogen signaling without HPV E6/E7.
ESCO1 and CTCF enable formation of long chromatin loops by protecting cohesin(STAG1) from WAPL.
Title: ESCO1 and CTCF enable formation of long chromatin loops by protecting cohesin(STAG1) from WAPL.
WAPL-Dependent Repair of Damaged DNA Replication Forks Underlies Oncogene-Induced Loss of Sister Chromatid Cohesion.
Title: WAPL-Dependent Repair of Damaged DNA Replication Forks Underlies Oncogene-Induced Loss of Sister Chromatid Cohesion.
Absolute copy numbers and dynamics of cohesin, CTCF, NIPBL, WAPL and sororin were measured by mass spectrometry, fluorescence-correlation spectroscopy and fluorescence recovery after photobleaching in HeLa cells.
Title: Absolute quantification of cohesin, CTCF and their regulators in human cells.
In p53-compromised cells we find that lethal replication stress confers WAPL-dependent centromere cohesion defects that maintain spindle assembly checkpoint-dependent mitotic arrest in the same cell cycle.
Title: Replication stress induces mitotic death through parallel pathways regulated by WAPL and telomere deprotection.
Rec8-Stag3 cohesin is shown to be susceptible to Wapl-dependent ring opening and sororin-mediated protection.
Title: Studying meiotic cohesin in somatic cells reveals that Rec8-containing cohesin requires Stag3 to function and is regulated by Wapl and sororin.
We provide evidence that the underlying mechanism involves the viral NS3/4 protease and the cohesin regulator, WAPL
Title: Dysregulation of the cohesin subunit RAD21 by Hepatitis C virus mediates host-virus interactions.
The results indicate a kinase-dependent role for Haspin in antagonizing Wapl and protecting centromeric cohesion in mitosis.
Title: A kinase-dependent role for Haspin in antagonizing Wapl and protecting mitotic centromere cohesion.
The results show that cohesin has an essential genome-wide function in mediating long-range chromatin interactions and support the hypothesis that cohesin creates these by loop extrusion, until it is delayed by CTCF in a manner dependent on PDS5 proteins, or until it is released from DNA by WAPL.
Title: Topologically associating domains and chromatin loops depend on cohesin and are regulated by CTCF, WAPL, and PDS5 proteins.

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Phenotypes

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EBI GWAS Catalog

Description
Genome-wide association study combining pathway analysis for typical sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in Chinese Han populations. EBI GWAS Catalog EBI GWAS CatalogPubMed
Genome-wide association study of periodontal pathogen colonization. EBI GWAS Catalog EBI GWAS CatalogPubMed
Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies new susceptibility loci for migraine. EBI GWAS Catalog EBI GWAS CatalogPubMed

Variation

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Interactions

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Products	Interactant	Other Gene	Complex	Source	Pubs	Description

General gene information

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Markers

SHGC-107756 (e-PCR)
- UniSTS:173848

RH120205 (e-PCR)
- UniSTS:133198

RH130055 (e-PCR)
- UniSTS:213343

RH68106 (e-PCR)
- UniSTS:56945

MARC_12283-12284:1005150312:1 (e-PCR)
- UniSTS:267395

STS-H98757 (e-PCR)
- UniSTS:74919

RH79889 (e-PCR)
- UniSTS:88017

Gene Ontology Provided by GOA

Function	Evidence Code	Pubs
enables ATP-dependent protein-DNA unloader activity	IMP Inferred from Mutant Phenotype more info	PubMed
enables protein binding	IPI Inferred from Physical Interaction more info	PubMed

Process	Evidence Code	Pubs
involved_in cell division	IEA Inferred from Electronic Annotation more info
involved_in mitotic sister chromatid segregation	IMP Inferred from Mutant Phenotype more info	PubMed
involved_in negative regulation of DNA replication	IMP Inferred from Mutant Phenotype more info	PubMed
involved_in negative regulation of chromatin binding	IMP Inferred from Mutant Phenotype more info	PubMed
involved_in negative regulation of sister chromatid cohesion	IMP Inferred from Mutant Phenotype more info	PubMed
involved_in protein localization to chromatin	IMP Inferred from Mutant Phenotype more info	PubMed

Component	Evidence Code	Pubs
located_in chromatin	IDA Inferred from Direct Assay more info	PubMed
located_in chromosome	TAS Traceable Author Statement more info
located_in chromosome, centromeric region	TAS Traceable Author Statement more info
located_in cytoplasm	IDA Inferred from Direct Assay more info	PubMed
located_in cytosol	IDA Inferred from Direct Assay more info
located_in cytosol	TAS Traceable Author Statement more info
located_in intercellular bridge	IDA Inferred from Direct Assay more info
located_in intracellular membrane-bounded organelle	IDA Inferred from Direct Assay more info
located_in mitotic spindle	IDA Inferred from Direct Assay more info
located_in nucleoplasm	IDA Inferred from Direct Assay more info
located_in nucleoplasm	TAS Traceable Author Statement more info
located_in nucleus	IDA Inferred from Direct Assay more info	PubMed

General protein information

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Preferred Names: wings apart-like protein homolog

Names: friend of EBNA2 (Epstein-Barr virus nuclear protein 2); friend of EBNA2 protein

NCBI Reference Sequences (RefSeq)

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mRNA and Protein(s)

NM_001318328.2 → NP_001305257.1 wings apart-like protein homolog isoform 2

Status: VALIDATED

Description

Transcript Variant: This variant (2) uses an alternate, in-frame splice site in the 5' coding region compared to variant 1. It encodes isoform 2, which is shorter than isoform 1.

Source sequence(s)

AL731569, AL844892

UniProtKB/TrEMBL

B2RTX8

Conserved Domains (1) summary

pfam07814
Location:632 → 992

WAPL; Wings apart-like protein regulation of heterochromatin
NM_015045.5 → NP_055860.1 wings apart-like protein homolog isoform 1

See identical proteins and their annotated locations for NP_055860.1

Status: VALIDATED

Description

Transcript Variant: This variant (1) represents the longer transcript and encodes the longer isoform (1).

Source sequence(s)

AL731569, AL844892

Consensus CDS

CCDS7375.1

UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot

A7E2B5, Q5VSK5, Q7Z5K2, Q8IX10, Q92549

Related

ENSP00000298767.4, ENST00000298767.10

Conserved Domains (1) summary

pfam07814
Location:638 → 998

WAPL; Wings apart-like protein regulation of heterochromatin