MYRF antisense RNA 1 (MYRF-AS1)

MYRF antisense RNA 1 (MYRF-AS1, also known as DKFZP434K028) is an annotated long non-coding RNA and antisense RNA in the human genome. It is named for its location antisense to the MYRF (myelin regulatory factor) gene, but currently, no evidence indicates that MYRF-AS1 encodes a protein, functions as a receptor, enzyme, transporter, or serves as a therapeutic target. There is no published evidence of it exerting a regulatory role in disease, or any relevance as a drug target, biomarker, therapeutic mechanism, or safety concern. This distinguishes it from the unrelated MYRF-1 and related genes, which are transmembrane transcription factors involved in developmental processes—MYRF-AS1 specifically refers to the RNA molecule and not to any protein or receptor[1][2][3]. The entries in the provided search results refer extensively to MYRF-1, which is a transcription factor in *C. elegans*, but do not reference MYRF-AS1. MYRF-AS1 appears to be a misidentified or non-relevant research target for therapeutic development and lacks supporting evidence in the literature as a functional molecule. Thus, the entry is considered incorrect—it is not a protein, receptor, enzyme, known target, or even established as a functional non-coding RNA.

Other names

DKFZP434K028MYRF-AS1