GO term: RNA binding Help



Ontology: Molecular Function (GO:0003723)

Definition: Interacting selectively and non-covalently with an RNA molecule or a portion thereof.

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Annotation Summary


This table lists the methods used to annotate genes either directly to the term RNA binding (439 genes) or to its variants containing one or more qualifiers (15 genes). Note that some genes may have been annotated by more than one method so the numbers in the table below may not add up to the totals given here.

Annotation Method GO Term # Yeast Genes Annotated
Manually curated (download data) contributes_to: RNA binding 15
RNA binding 205
High-throughput (download data) RNA binding 1
Computational (download data) RNA binding 378

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Annotation details for genes that have been directly annotated to the term RNA binding or its variants containing one or more qualifiers (NOT, contributes to, or colocalizes with).

contributes_to: RNA binding
     15 genes directly annotated to this term
Locus Evidence Annotation Method Reference Assigned By
CLP1/YOR250C IDA: Inferred from Direct Assay
Assigned on 2005-02-18
manually curated Gross S and Moore C  (2001) Five subunits are required for reconstitution of the cleavage and polyadenylation activities of Saccharomyces cerevisiae cleavage factor I. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 98(11):6080-5 SGD
FIP1/YJR093C IMP: Inferred from Mutant Phenotype
Assigned on 2005-02-18
manually curated Helmling S, et al.  (2001) Fip1 regulates the activity of Poly(A) polymerase through multiple interactions. Mol Cell Biol 21(6):2026-37 SGD
LSM2/YBL026W IPI: Inferred from Physical Interaction
Assigned on 2005-11-29
manually curated Salgado-Garrido J, et al.  (1999) Sm and Sm-like proteins assemble in two related complexes of deep evolutionary origin. EMBO J 18(12):3451-62 SGD
IDA: Inferred from Direct Assay
Assigned on 2005-11-29
manually curated Fernandez CF, et al.  (2004) An Lsm2-Lsm7 complex in Saccharomyces cerevisiae associates with the small nucleolar RNA snR5. Mol Biol Cell 15(6):2842-52 SGD
LSM3/YLR438C-A IPI: Inferred from Physical Interaction
Assigned on 2005-11-29
manually curated Salgado-Garrido J, et al.  (1999) Sm and Sm-like proteins assemble in two related complexes of deep evolutionary origin. EMBO J 18(12):3451-62 SGD
LSM5/YER146W IPI: Inferred from Physical Interaction
Assigned on 2005-11-29
manually curated Salgado-Garrido J, et al.  (1999) Sm and Sm-like proteins assemble in two related complexes of deep evolutionary origin. EMBO J 18(12):3451-62 SGD
IDA: Inferred from Direct Assay
Assigned on 2005-11-29
manually curated Fernandez CF, et al.  (2004) An Lsm2-Lsm7 complex in Saccharomyces cerevisiae associates with the small nucleolar RNA snR5. Mol Biol Cell 15(6):2842-52 SGD
LSM6/YDR378C IPI: Inferred from Physical Interaction
Assigned on 2005-11-29
manually curated Salgado-Garrido J, et al.  (1999) Sm and Sm-like proteins assemble in two related complexes of deep evolutionary origin. EMBO J 18(12):3451-62 SGD
IDA: Inferred from Direct Assay
Assigned on 2005-11-29
manually curated Fernandez CF, et al.  (2004) An Lsm2-Lsm7 complex in Saccharomyces cerevisiae associates with the small nucleolar RNA snR5. Mol Biol Cell 15(6):2842-52 SGD
LSM7/YNL147W IPI: Inferred from Physical Interaction
Assigned on 2005-11-29
manually curated Salgado-Garrido J, et al.  (1999) Sm and Sm-like proteins assemble in two related complexes of deep evolutionary origin. EMBO J 18(12):3451-62 SGD
LSM8/YJR022W IPI: Inferred from Physical Interaction
Assigned on 2005-11-29
manually curated Salgado-Garrido J, et al.  (1999) Sm and Sm-like proteins assemble in two related complexes of deep evolutionary origin. EMBO J 18(12):3451-62 SGD
IDA: Inferred from Direct Assay
Assigned on 2005-11-29
manually curated Fernandez CF, et al.  (2004) An Lsm2-Lsm7 complex in Saccharomyces cerevisiae associates with the small nucleolar RNA snR5. Mol Biol Cell 15(6):2842-52 SGD
MPE1/YKL059C IC: Inferred By Curator
from mRNA cleavage and polyadenylation specificity factor complex
Assigned on 2005-02-22
manually curated Vo LT, et al.  (2001) Mpe1, a zinc knuckle protein, is an essential component of yeast cleavage and polyadenylation factor required for the cleavage and polyadenylation of mRNA. Mol Cell Biol 21(24):8346-56 SGD
PFS2/YNL317W IC: Inferred By Curator
from mRNA cleavage and polyadenylation specificity factor complex
Assigned on 2005-02-18
manually curated Nedea E, et al.  (2003) Organization and function of APT, a subcomplex of the yeast cleavage and polyadenylation factor involved in the formation of mRNA and small nucleolar RNA 3'-ends. J Biol Chem 278(35):33000-10 SGD
PTA1/YAL043C IC: Inferred By Curator
from mRNA cleavage and polyadenylation specificity factor complex
Assigned on 2005-02-18
manually curated Zhao J, et al.  (1999) Pta1, a component of yeast CF II, is required for both cleavage and poly(A) addition of mRNA precursor. Mol Cell Biol 19(11):7733-40 SGD
PTI1/YGR156W IC: Inferred By Curator
from mRNA cleavage and polyadenylation specificity factor complex
Assigned on 2005-02-18
manually curated Nedea E, et al.  (2003) Organization and function of APT, a subcomplex of the yeast cleavage and polyadenylation factor involved in the formation of mRNA and small nucleolar RNA 3'-ends. J Biol Chem 278(35):33000-10 SGD
RNA14/YMR061W IDA: Inferred from Direct Assay
Assigned on 2005-02-18
manually curated Noble CG, et al.  (2004) Rna14-Rna15 assembly mediates the RNA-binding capability of Saccharomyces cerevisiae cleavage factor IA. Nucleic Acids Res 32(11):3364-75 SGD
SYC1/YOR179C IC: Inferred By Curator
from mRNA cleavage and polyadenylation specificity factor complex
Assigned on 2005-02-22
manually curated Nedea E, et al.  (2003) Organization and function of APT, a subcomplex of the yeast cleavage and polyadenylation factor involved in the formation of mRNA and small nucleolar RNA 3'-ends. J Biol Chem 278(35):33000-10 SGD
YSH1/YLR277C IC: Inferred By Curator
from mRNA cleavage and polyadenylation specificity factor complex
Assigned on 2005-02-18
manually curated Zhao J, et al.  (1997) Cleavage factor II of Saccharomyces cerevisiae contains homologues to subunits of the mammalian Cleavage/ polyadenylation specificity factor and exhibits sequence-specific, ATP-dependent interaction with precursor RNA. J Biol Chem 272(16):10831-8 SGD

RNA binding
     439 genes directly annotated to this term
Locus Evidence Annotation Method Reference Assigned By
ABD1/YBR236C IEA: Inferred from Electronic Annotation
with EBI:KW-0694
Last Updated 2013-03-02
computational UniProt-GOA  (2011) Gene Ontology annotation based on manual assignment of UniProtKB keywords in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot entries. UniProtKB
AEP2/YMR282C IEA: Inferred from Electronic Annotation
with EBI:KW-0694
Last Updated 2013-03-02
computational UniProt-GOA  (2011) Gene Ontology annotation based on manual assignment of UniProtKB keywords in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot entries. UniProtKB
AI1/Q0050 IEA: Inferred from Electronic Annotation
with EBI:IPR000477
Last Updated 2013-03-02
computational DDB, et al.  (2001) Gene Ontology annotation through association of InterPro records with GO terms. InterPro
AI2/Q0055 TAS: Traceable Author Statement
Assigned on 2002-10-24
manually curated Zimmerly S, et al.  (1999) Group II intron reverse transcriptase in yeast mitochondria. Stabilization and regulation of reverse transcriptase activity by the intron RNA. J Mol Biol 289(3):473-90 SGD
IEA: Inferred from Electronic Annotation
with EBI:IPR000477
Last Updated 2013-03-02
computational DDB, et al.  (2001) Gene Ontology annotation through association of InterPro records with GO terms. InterPro
AIR2/YDL175C IDA: Inferred from Direct Assay
Assigned on 2012-04-02
manually curated Holub P, et al.  (2012) Air2p is critical for the assembly and RNA-binding of the TRAMP complex and the KOW domain of Mtr4p is crucial for exosome activation. Nucleic Acids Res 40(12):5679-93 SGD
ALA1/YOR335C IEA: Inferred from Electronic Annotation
with EBI:KW-0694
Last Updated 2013-03-02
computational UniProt-GOA  (2011) Gene Ontology annotation based on manual assignment of UniProtKB keywords in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot entries. UniProtKB
ANB1/YJR047C ISA: Inferred from Sequence Alignment
with SGD:HYP2
Assigned on 2009-05-15
manually curated Gentz PM, et al.  (2009) Dimerization of the yeast eukaryotic translation initiation factor 5A requires hypusine and is RNA dependent. FEBS J 276(3):695-706 SGD
IEA: Inferred from Electronic Annotation
with EBI:IPR019769, EBI:IPR020189, EBI:IPR001884
Last Updated 2013-03-02
computational DDB, et al.  (2001) Gene Ontology annotation through association of InterPro records with GO terms. InterPro
IEA: Inferred from Electronic Annotation
with EBI:KW-0694
Last Updated 2013-03-02
computational UniProt-GOA  (2011) Gene Ontology annotation based on manual assignment of UniProtKB keywords in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot entries. UniProtKB
ARC1/YGL105W IEA: Inferred from Electronic Annotation
with EBI:KW-0694
Last Updated 2013-03-02
computational UniProt-GOA  (2011) Gene Ontology annotation based on manual assignment of UniProtKB keywords in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot entries. UniProtKB
BFR1/YOR198C IDA: Inferred from Direct Assay
Assigned on 2002-12-04
manually curated Lang BD, et al.  (2001) The brefeldin A resistance protein Bfr1p is a component of polyribosome-associated mRNP complexes in yeast. Nucleic Acids Res 29(12):2567-74 SGD
BI3/Q0115 IDA: Inferred from Direct Assay
Assigned on 2002-11-19
manually curated Bassi GS, et al.  (2002) Recruitment of intron-encoded and co-opted proteins in splicing of the bI3 group I intron RNA. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 99(1):128-33 SGD
IEA: Inferred from Electronic Annotation
with EBI:KW-0694
Last Updated 2013-03-02
computational UniProt-GOA  (2011) Gene Ontology annotation based on manual assignment of UniProtKB keywords in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot entries. UniProtKB
BI4/Q0120 IDA: Inferred from Direct Assay
Assigned on 2002-11-19
manually curated Rho SB and Martinis SA  (2000) The bI4 group I intron binds directly to both its protein splicing partners, a tRNA synthetase and maturase, to facilitate RNA splicing activity. RNA 6(12):1882-94 SGD
BRE5/YNR051C IEA: Inferred from Electronic Annotation
with EBI:KW-0694
Last Updated 2013-03-02
computational UniProt-GOA  (2011) Gene Ontology annotation based on manual assignment of UniProtKB keywords in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot entries. UniProtKB
BRR1/YPR057W IPI: Inferred from Physical Interaction
Assigned on 2002-11-01
manually curated Noble SM and Guthrie C  (1996) Transcriptional pulse-chase analysis reveals a role for a novel snRNP-associated protein in the manufacture of spliceosomal snRNPs. EMBO J 15(16):4368-79 SGD
CBC2/YPL178W IEA: Inferred from Electronic Annotation
with EBI:KW-0694
Last Updated 2013-03-02
computational UniProt-GOA  (2011) Gene Ontology annotation based on manual assignment of UniProtKB keywords in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot entries. UniProtKB
CBF5/YLR175W IEA: Inferred from Electronic Annotation
with EBI:IPR004521, EBI:IPR020103, EBI:IPR002478
Last Updated 2013-03-02
computational DDB, et al.  (2001) Gene Ontology annotation through association of InterPro records with GO terms. InterPro
IEA: Inferred from Electronic Annotation
with EBI:KW-0694
Last Updated 2013-03-02
computational UniProt-GOA  (2011) Gene Ontology annotation based on manual assignment of UniProtKB keywords in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot entries. UniProtKB
CBP2/YHL038C IDA: Inferred from Direct Assay,
IMP: Inferred from Mutant Phenotype
Assigned on 2009-11-10
manually curated Tirupati HK, et al.  (1999) An RNA binding motif in the Cbp2 protein required for protein-stimulated RNA catalysis. J Biol Chem 274(43):30393-401 SGD
CCA1/YER168C IEA: Inferred from Electronic Annotation
with EBI:IPR002646
Last Updated 2013-03-02
computational DDB, et al.  (2001) Gene Ontology annotation through association of InterPro records with GO terms. InterPro
IEA: Inferred from Electronic Annotation
with EBI:KW-0694
Last Updated 2013-03-02
computational UniProt-GOA  (2011) Gene Ontology annotation based on manual assignment of UniProtKB keywords in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot entries. UniProtKB
CCR4/YAL021C IEA: Inferred from Electronic Annotation
with EBI:KW-0694
Last Updated 2013-03-02
computational UniProt-GOA  (2011) Gene Ontology annotation based on manual assignment of UniProtKB keywords in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot entries. UniProtKB
CDC33/YOL139C IEA: Inferred from Electronic Annotation
with EBI:IPR001040, EBI:IPR019770
Last Updated 2013-03-02
computational DDB, et al.  (2001) Gene Ontology annotation through association of InterPro records with GO terms. InterPro
IEA: Inferred from Electronic Annotation
with EBI:KW-0694
Last Updated 2013-03-02
computational UniProt-GOA  (2011) Gene Ontology annotation based on manual assignment of UniProtKB keywords in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot entries. UniProtKB
CFT1/YDR301W IDA: Inferred from Direct Assay
Assigned on 2005-02-16
manually curated Zhao J, et al.  (1997) Cleavage factor II of Saccharomyces cerevisiae contains homologues to subunits of the mammalian Cleavage/ polyadenylation specificity factor and exhibits sequence-specific, ATP-dependent interaction with precursor RNA. J Biol Chem 272(16):10831-8 SGD
IEA: Inferred from Electronic Annotation
with EBI:KW-0694
Last Updated 2013-03-02
computational UniProt-GOA  (2011) Gene Ontology annotation based on manual assignment of UniProtKB keywords in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot entries. UniProtKB
CFT2/YLR115W IPI: Inferred from Physical Interaction
Assigned on 2005-02-16
manually curated Zhao J, et al.  (1997) Cleavage factor II of Saccharomyces cerevisiae contains homologues to subunits of the mammalian Cleavage/ polyadenylation specificity factor and exhibits sequence-specific, ATP-dependent interaction with precursor RNA. J Biol Chem 272(16):10831-8 SGD
CIC1/YHR052W IEA: Inferred from Electronic Annotation
with EBI:IPR023674, EBI:IPR002143
Last Updated 2013-03-02
computational DDB, et al.  (2001) Gene Ontology annotation through association of InterPro records with GO terms. InterPro
CSL4/YNL232W IEA: Inferred from Electronic Annotation
with EBI:IPR019495
Last Updated 2013-03-02
computational DDB, et al.  (2001) Gene Ontology annotation through association of InterPro records with GO terms. InterPro
IEA: Inferred from Electronic Annotation
with EBI:KW-0694
Last Updated 2013-03-02
computational UniProt-GOA  (2011) Gene Ontology annotation based on manual assignment of UniProtKB keywords in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot entries. UniProtKB
CTH1/YDR151C IEA: Inferred from Electronic Annotation
with EBI:KW-0694
Last Updated 2013-03-02
computational UniProt-GOA  (2011) Gene Ontology annotation based on manual assignment of UniProtKB keywords in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot entries. UniProtKB
CUS1/YMR240C IEA: Inferred from Electronic Annotation
with EBI:KW-0694
Last Updated 2013-03-02
computational UniProt-GOA  (2011) Gene Ontology annotation based on manual assignment of UniProtKB keywords in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot entries. UniProtKB
CUS2/YNL286W IMP: Inferred from Mutant Phenotype,
ISS: Inferred from Sequence or structural Similarity
Assigned on 2002-09-26
manually curated Yan D, et al.  (1998) CUS2, a yeast homolog of human Tat-SF1, rescues function of misfolded U2 through an unusual RNA recognition motif. Mol Cell Biol 18(9):5000-9 SGD
IEA: Inferred from Electronic Annotation
with EBI:KW-0694
Last Updated 2013-03-02
computational UniProt-GOA  (2011) Gene Ontology annotation based on manual assignment of UniProtKB keywords in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot entries. UniProtKB
CWC2/YDL209C IEA: Inferred from Electronic Annotation
with EBI:KW-0694
Last Updated 2013-03-02
computational UniProt-GOA  (2011) Gene Ontology annotation based on manual assignment of UniProtKB keywords in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot entries. UniProtKB
CWC22/YGR278W IEA: Inferred from Electronic Annotation
with EBI:IPR003890
Last Updated 2013-03-02
computational DDB, et al.  (2001) Gene Ontology annotation through association of InterPro records with GO terms. InterPro
DBP1/YPL119C IEA: Inferred from Electronic Annotation
with EBI:KW-0694
Last Updated 2013-03-02
computational UniProt-GOA  (2011) Gene Ontology annotation based on manual assignment of UniProtKB keywords in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot entries. UniProtKB
DBP10/YDL031W IEA: Inferred from Electronic Annotation
with EBI:IPR012541
Last Updated 2013-03-02
computational DDB, et al.  (2001) Gene Ontology annotation through association of InterPro records with GO terms. InterPro
IEA: Inferred from Electronic Annotation
with EBI:KW-0694
Last Updated 2013-03-02
computational UniProt-GOA  (2011) Gene Ontology annotation based on manual assignment of UniProtKB keywords in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot entries. UniProtKB