CELE_C14A4.5, exos-5, C14A4.5

crn-5 encodes a cell death-related nuclease which is a homolog of Rrp46, an eukaryotic ribonulease component of the exosome, involved in RNA processing; crn-5 is believed to function in a large multinuclease complex, the degradeosome, whose components include the protein products of cps-6, crn-1, crn-4, cpy-13 and other non-nuclease components like wah-1, to promote apoptotic DNA degradation; crn-5 has been shown to bind DNA without detectable DNase activity but enhances the DNase activity of CRN-4, a DEDD family apoptotic DNAase and RNase.

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