Function
KHDRBS1, also known as Sam68, is a protein that is recruited and tyrosine phosphorylated by various receptor systems, including the T-cell, leptin, and insulin receptors. Following phosphorylation, it acts as an adapter protein in signal transduction cascades by interacting with SH2 and SH3 domain-containing proteins. It plays a crucial role in G2-M progression during the cell cycle and represses CBP-dependent transcriptional activation by competing with other nuclear factors for binding to CBP. Additionally, KHDRBS1 acts as a potential regulator of mRNA stability and/or translation rates, mediating mRNA nuclear export. It positively regulates the association of constitutive transport element (CTE)-containing mRNA with large polyribosomes and translation initiation. According to some authors, it is not involved in the nucleocytoplasmic export of unspliced (CTE)-containing RNA species. It is an RNA-binding protein involved in regulating alternative splicing, influencing mRNA splice site selection and exon inclusion. It binds to RNA containing 5'-[AU]UAA-3' as a bipartite motif spaced by more than 15 nucleotides and binds poly(A). It can regulate CD44 alternative splicing in a Ras pathway-dependent manner. In collaboration with HNRNPA1, it modulates alternative splicing of BCL2L1 by promoting splicing towards the isoform Bcl-X(S), and of SMN1. It can also regulate alternative splicing of NRXN1 and NRXN3 in the laminin G-like domain 6 containing the evolutionary conserved neurexin alternative spliced segment 4 (AS4), which is involved in neurexin selective targeting to postsynaptic partners. In a neuronal activity-dependent manner, it cooperates synergistically with KHDRBS2/SLIM-1 in regulating NRXN1 exon skipping at AS4. This cooperation with KHDRBS2/SLIM-1 is antagonistic for the regulation of NXRN3 alternative splicing at AS4. Isoform 3, specifically expressed in growth-arrested cells, inhibits S phase.