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Official Full Name: interleukin enhancer binding factor 2
Also known as: NF45; PRO3063
The protein encoded by this gene is a transcription factor required for the expression of the interleukin 2 gene by T cells. It also binds RNA and is an essential component of the encapsidation and protein priming of the hepatitis B virus polymerase. The encoded 45 kDa protein (NF45, ILF2) forms a complex with the 90 kDa interleukin enhancer-binding factor 3 (NF90, ILF3), and this complex has been shown to affect the redistribution of nuclear mRNA to the cytoplasm, to repair DNA breaks by nonhomologous end joining, and to negatively regulate the microRNA processing pathway. Knockdown of NF45 or NF90 protein may delay cell growth by inhibiting mRNA stabilization. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants. Associated pseudogenes were found on chromosomes 3 and 14.