Protein-coding gene in the species Homo sapiens
CTU2 (formerly known as C16orf84 ) is a human gene located on chromosome 16.[ 5] The mRNA encodes the longer isoform . The gene encodes a cytoplasmic protein that plays a probable role in tRNA modification.[ 6]
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