Scaffold protein that functions as a component of a multimolecular complex involved in histone mRNA 3'-end processing. Specific component of the tight junction (TJ) plaque, but might not be an exclusively junctional component. May have a house-keeping rule. Is involved in pre-mRNA polyadenylation. Enhances SSU72 phosphatase activity.
Cytoplasm, cytoskeleton. Cell junction, tight junction. Cell membrane; Peripheral membrane protein; Cytoplasmic side. Cell junction. Nucleus, nucleoplasm. Cytoplasmic face of adhesion plaques (major) and nucleoplasm (minor) (in cells with TJ). Nucleoplasm (in cells without TJ). Nuclear bodies of heat-stressed cells. Colocalizes with HSF1 in nuclear stress bodies upon heat shock (PubMed:14707147). .
In testis, expressed in polar epithelia and Sertoli cells but not in vascular endothelia. The protein is detected in stomach, duodenum, pancreas, liver, fetal brain, carcinomas, lens-forming cells, fibroblasts, lymphocytes, lymphoma cells, erythroleukemia cells but not in endothelium of vessels, epidermis, intercalated disks, Purkinje fiber cells of the heart and lymph node.