Small nucleolar RNA SNORD14 | |
Symbol: | SNORD14 |
Altsymbols: | U14 |
Rfam: | RF00016 |
Rna Type: | Gene |
Tax Domain: | Eukaryota |
In molecular biology, U14 small nucleolar RNA (U14 snoRNA) is a non-coding RNA required for early cleavages of eukaryotic precursor rRNAs. In yeasts, this molecule possesses a stem-loop region (known as the Y-domain) which is essential for function. A similar structure, but with a different consensus sequence, is found in plants, but is absent in vertebrates.[1] In human there are two closely related copies called SNORD14A and SNORD14B that are expressed from the intron of their host gene ribosomal protein Rps13.