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Nickel BE, Bock ME, Nachtigal MW, Cattini PA. Differential expression of human placental growth hormone variant and chorionic somatomammotropin genes in choriocarcinoma cells treated with methotrexate. Mol Cell Endocrinol 1993; 91:159-66. [PMID: 8472847 DOI: 10.1016/0303-7207(93)90268-o] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Chorionic somatomammotropin (hCS) genes (hCS-A and hCS-B) and the placental growth hormone variant (hGH-V) gene are expressed in the syncytiotrophoblast in vivo, and at low levels in cytotrophoblast-like choriocarcinoma (BeWo) cells. Treatment of choriocarcinoma cells with methotrexate (MTX) will induce a cell type intermediate between a cytotrophoblast and syncytiotrophoblast. After treatment with MTX, hCS/hGH-V mRNA levels were decreased in BeWo cells, and only hGH-V and minor hCS-A related transcripts of 1.6, 2.1 and 4.2 kilobases, termed hCS-A2, hCS-A3 and hCS-A4, respectively, were detected. By contrast, chorionic gonadotropin RNA levels were increased. This pattern of hCS/hGH-V expression resembles that observed when BeWo cells are grown in thyroid hormone (T3)-depleted serum, where hGH-V/hCS RNA increases in response to T3. This increase is blunted by MTX treatment, but is not due to a decrease in number or affinity of T3 receptors. These data indicate that the hGH-V and hCS genes can be differentially regulated by MTX, and are consistent with MTX interfering with T3 responsiveness of these genes. Also, if BeWo cells treated with MTX do represent a transitional state, these data raise the possibility that hGH-V and hCS possess a different temporal pattern of expression in the developing trophoblast.
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- B E Nickel
- Department of Physiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
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Glycophorin B and glycophorin E genes arose from the glycophorin A ancestral gene via two duplications during primate evolution. J Biol Chem 1993. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)53991-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Theill LE. Transcriptional Control of Pituitary Gene Expression. Gene Expr 1993. [DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4684-6811-3_8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Kim HS, Lyons KM, Saitoh E, Azen EA, Smithies O, Maeda N. The structure and evolution of the human salivary proline-rich protein gene family. Mamm Genome 1993; 4:3-14. [PMID: 8422499 DOI: 10.1007/bf00364656] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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We present the nucleotide sequences of four members of the six-member human salivary proline-rich protein (PRP) gene family. The four genes are PRB1 and PRB2, which encode basic PRPs, and PRB3 and PRB4, which encode glycosylated PRPs. Each PRB gene is approximately 4.0 kb in length and contains four exons, the third of which is entirely composed of 63-bp tandem repeats and encodes the proline-rich portion of the protein products. Exon 3 contains different numbers of tandem repeats in the different PRB genes. Variation in the numbers of these repeats is also responsible for length variations in different alleles of the PRB genes. We have determined a probable evolutionary history of the human PRP gene family by comparing the nucleotide sequences of the six PRP genes. The present-day six PRP loci probably evolved from a single ancestral gene by four sequential gene duplications, leading to six genes that fall into three subsets, each consisting of two genes. During this evolutionary process, multiple rearrangements and gene conversion occurred mainly in the region from the 3' end of IVS2 and the 3' end of exon 3.
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- H S Kim
- Department of Pathology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 27599
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Selective expression of trypsin fusion genes in acinar cells of the pancreas and stomach of transgenic mice. J Biol Chem 1992. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)35718-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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To investigate the nature of the recombination that generated the haptoglobin three-gene cluster in Old World primates, we sequenced the region between the second gene (HPR) and the third gene (HPP) in chimpanzees (15 kb), as well as the region 3' to the cluster in humans (14 kb). Comparison to the previously sequenced human haptoglobin (HP) and HPR genes showed that the junction point between HP and HPR in humans (junction 1) was not identical to the junction point between the HPR and HPP genes of the chimpanzee (junction 2). An Alu sequence was found at each junction, but both Alu sequences lacked short direct repeats of the flanking genomic DNA. The lack of direct repeats implies that both junction Alu sequences are the products of recombination between different Alu elements. In addition, other insertion and deletion events are clustered in the regions near the junction Alu sequences. The observation that Alu sequences define the junctions between genes in the haptoglobin gene cluster emphasizes the importance of Alu sequences in the evolution of multigene families.
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- L M Erickson
- Department of Pathology and Curriculum of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 27599-7525
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The bovine placenta, like that of rodents and primates, synthesizes members of the PRL/GH gene family, which may assist the pituitary hormones or perform unique functions during pregnancy. Bovine placental lactogen (bPL) potentially may act through.three receptors: as an agonist or partial antagonist at the PRL and GH receptors, and via an apparently specific receptor in the endometrium. A large distinct subfamily of diverse primary structure, including bovine PRL-related protein I (bPRP-I), evidently does not act via these receptors. Advances in our understanding of hormone-receptor interactions for this gene family have provided new tools to study the role of these hormones in the successful pregnancy.
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- L A Schuler
- Department of Comparative Biosciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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McCombie WR, Martin-Gallardo A, Gocayne JD, FitzGerald M, Dubnick M, Kelley JM, Castilla L, Liu LI, Wallace S, Trapp S. Expressed genes, Alu repeats and polymorphisms in cosmids sequenced from chromosome 4p16.3. Nat Genet 1992; 1:348-53. [PMID: 1338771 DOI: 10.1038/ng0892-348] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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The sequences of three cosmids (90 kilobases) from the Huntington's disease region in chromosome 4p16.3 have been determined. A 30,837 base overlap of DNA sequenced from two individuals was found to contain 72 DNA sequence polymorphisms, an average of 2.3 polymorphisms per kilobase (kb). The assembled 58 kb contig contains 62 Alu repeats, and eleven predicted exons representing at least three expressed genes that encode previously unidentified proteins. Each of these genes is associated with a CpG island. The structure of one of the new genes, hda1-1, has been determined by characterizing cDNAs from a placental library. This gene is expressed in a variety of tissues and may encode a novel housekeeping gene.
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- W R McCombie
- Section of Receptor Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892
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Wilson RK, Koop BF, Chen C, Halloran N, Sciammis R, Hood L. Nucleotide sequence analysis of 95 kb near the 3' end of the murine T-cell receptor alpha/delta chain locus: strategy and methodology. Genomics 1992; 13:1198-208. [PMID: 1505953 DOI: 10.1016/0888-7543(92)90038-t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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The nucleotide sequence of a region at the 3' terminus of the murine T-cell receptor alpha/delta chain locus is presented. This region, which encodes the constant region genes for alpha and delta chain polypeptides and all 50 joining gene segments for the alpha chain polypeptide, spans 94,647 bp and includes more than 50 noncoding sequence elements important for T-cell receptor gene rearrangement and expression. DNA sequencing of this region included complete analysis of two cosmid clones and five additional restriction fragments using a random subcloning approach with various manual and automated sequencing strategies. The automated sequencing strategies hold considerable promise for future large-scale DNA sequencing efforts.
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- R K Wilson
- Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena 91125
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Mullis PE, Brickell PM. The use of the polymerase chain reaction in prenatal diagnosis of growth hormone gene deletions. Clin Endocrinol (Oxf) 1992; 37:89-95. [PMID: 1424197 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.1992.tb02288.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Familial isolated growth hormone deficiency (IGHD) type IA is characterized by a complete absence of human growth hormone (hGH) resulting in most cases from either a 6.7 or 7.7 kb deletion of DNA containing the hGH-1 gene. These patients have a strong initial anabolic response to exogenous recombinant hGH (r-hGH) therapy, frequently associated with the development of immune intolerance to r-hGH which causes an arrest of response to r-hGH replacement. This disorder is inherited as an autosomal recessive trait. PATIENTS AND DESIGN In two pregnancies at risk, the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was applied as a method for identifying hGH-1 gene deletions in DNA obtained by chorionic villus sampling (CVS) in the first trimester. RESULTS Homozygotes for the 6.7kb deletion of DNA containing the hGH-1 gene were easily and conclusively detected by the absence of 1900, 761 and 712bp fragments after SmaI digestion of the polymerase chain reaction products. In contrast, the pattern found in heterozygotes for the hGH-1 gene deletion was difficult to distinguish from the pattern found in normal homozygotes. CONCLUSIONS We conclude that the polymerase chain reaction method is valuable for diagnosing individuals who are homozygous for hGH-1 gene deletions, while heterozygotes and normal individuals may be difficult to distinguish from each other. We suggest that, in these cases, Southern blotting remains the analysis to perform.
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- P E Mullis
- University of Bern, Department of Paediatrics, Inselspital, Switzerland
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Nachtigal MW, Bock ME, Kowaluk BA, Cattini PA. Chorionic gonadotrophin and c-myc expression in growing and growth-inhibited (intermediate) trophoblasts. Placenta 1992; 13:371-83. [PMID: 1438085 DOI: 10.1016/0143-4004(92)90061-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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FEG-3 cells are a clonal line of human choriocarcinoma and resemble villous cytotrophoblasts which are the stem cells for the syncytiotrophoblast in the placenta. FEG-3 cells synthesize and secrete the alpha subunit of human chorionic gonadotrophin (hCG). Treatment of FEG-3 cells with the chemotherapeutic drug (1 microM) methotrexate (MTX) results in an increase in nuclear diameter. Cell division is blocked and a decrease in c-myc mRNA levels in observed. The effects on cell growth and c-myc mRNA expression are reversible, and cells treated with MTX for 48 h retain their proliferative potential. Assessment of placental hormone gene expression reveals that a member of the human growth hormone gene family is expressed at extremely low levels and is unaffected by MTX treatment. Alpha and beta chorionic gonadotrophin (hCG) levels are increased by MTX treatment, but levels decrease following removal of MTX. In contrast to hCG in FEG-3 cells, non-trophoblastic or ectopic production of alpha hCG in human cervical carcinoma cells is inhibited by MTX treatment. These data indicate that MTX will induce morphological and biochemical changes in FEG-3 cells. They reveal an inverse relationship between c-myc and hCG RNA expression, and suggest different mechanisms govern trophoblast versus non-trophoblast production of alpha hCG.
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- M W Nachtigal
- Department of Physiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
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MacLeod J, Lee A, Liebhaber S, Cooke N. Developmental control and alternative splicing of the placentally expressed transcripts from the human growth hormone gene cluster. J Biol Chem 1992. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)49700-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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- B J Knoll
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Texas Health Sciences Center, Houston 77025
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Watanabe K, Nomoto M, Nagata S, Itoh Y, Hikichi K, Maruyama N, Mita T, Senshu T. The rat peptidylarginine deiminase-encoding gene: structural analysis and the 5'-flanking sequence. Gene 1992; 114:261-5. [PMID: 1601308 DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(92)90585-d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Genomic clones of the rat peptidylarginine deiminase (PAD)-encoding gene (PAD) were isolated, and the gene organization was analyzed by restriction mapping and nucleotide sequencing. The PAD spans more than 50 kb and contains 16 exons and 15 introns. The lengths of the introns from 0.5 kb to more than 16.5 kb. A 1.7-kb sequence in the 5'-flanking region was determined. S1 nuclease mapping revealed two putative cap sites 79 and 81 bp upstream from the N-terminal ATG codon of PAD, which had been determined by amino acid sequence analysis. This ATG was confirmed to be the translation start site, since no other ATG codon was found in the open reading frame downstream from the cap sites. The 5'-flanking sequence contains four potential SP1-binding sites, a putative Pit-1/GHF-1-binding site, four short sequences either identical or homologous to the sequences in the promoter regions of rat or human growth hormone encoding genes, as well as a sequence similar to an estrogen-responsive element. However, neither a typical TATAA box, nor CCAAT box is present. These results provide important clues for elucidating the mechanism of female-specific and/or sex cycle-dependent gene expression.
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- K Watanabe
- Department of Biochemical Engineering and Science, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Fukuoka, Japan
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Steingrimsdottir H, Rowley G, Dorado G, Cole J, Lehmann AR. Mutations which alter splicing in the human hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase gene. Nucleic Acids Res 1992; 20:1201-8. [PMID: 1373235 PMCID: PMC312159 DOI: 10.1093/nar/20.6.1201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 111] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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A large proportion of mutations at the human hprt locus result in aberrant splicing of the hprt mRNA. We have been able to relate the mutation to the splicing abnormality in 30 of these mutants. Mutations at the splice acceptor sites of introns 4, 6 and 7 result in splicing out of the whole of the downstream exons, whereas in introns 1, 7 or 8 a cryptic site in the downstream exon can be used. Mutations in the donor site of introns 1 and 5 result in the utilisation of cryptic sites further downstream, whereas in the other introns, the upstream exons are spliced out. Our most unexpected findings were mutations in the middle of exons 3 and 8 which resulted in splicing out of these exons in part of the mRNA populations. Our results have enabled us to assess current models of mRNA splicing. They emphasize the importance of the polypyrimidine tract in splice acceptor sites, they support the role of the exon as the unit of assembly for splicing, and they are consistent with a model proposing a stem-loop structure for exon 8 in the hprt mRNA.
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Martin-Gallardo A, McCombie WR, Gocayne JD, FitzGerald MG, Wallace S, Lee BM, Lamerdin J, Trapp S, Kelley JM, Liu LI. Automated DNA sequencing and analysis of 106 kilobases from human chromosome 19q13.3. Nat Genet 1992; 1:34-9. [PMID: 1301997 DOI: 10.1038/ng0492-34] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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A total of 116,118 basepairs (bp) derived from three cosmids spanning the ERCC1 locus of human chromosome 19q13.3 have been sequenced with automated fluorescence-based sequencers and analysed by polymerase chain reaction amplification and computer methods. The assembled sequence forms two contigs totalling 105,831 bp, which contain a human fosB proto-oncogene, a gene encoding a protein phosphatase, two genes of unknown function and the previously-characterized ERCC1 DNA repair gene. This light band region has a high average density of 1.4 Alu repeats per kilobase. Human chromosome light bands could therefore contain up to 75,000 genes and 1.5 million Alu repeats.
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- A Martin-Gallardo
- Receptor Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892
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Sakuraba H, Eng CM, Desnick RJ, Bishop DF. Invariant exon skipping in the human alpha-galactosidase A pre-mRNA: Ag+1 to t substitution in a 5'-splice site causing Fabry disease. Genomics 1992; 12:643-50. [PMID: 1315304 DOI: 10.1016/0888-7543(92)90288-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Fabry disease, an inborn error of glycosphingolipid catabolism, results from lesions in the X-linked gene encoding the human lysosomal hydrolase, alpha-galactosidase A (alpha-D-galactoside galactohydrolase; EC 3.2.1.22). To detect alpha-galactosidase A RNA processing or stability defects causing Fabry disease, Northern hybridization analyses were performed with poly(A)+ RNA isolated from cultured lymphoblasts from unrelated Fabry hemizygotes. Using a riboprobe complimentary to the normal 1.45-kb alpha-galactosidase A mRNA, a single 1.25-kb transcript was identified in three classically affected brothers from a Japanese Fabry family. Densitometric analysis revealed that the 1.25-kb transcripts were present at 50 to 60% of normal amounts. RNase A analysis identified a deletion of about 200 bp that appeared to include the entire 198 bp of exon 6. Amplification and direct sequencing of a genomic region containing exon 6 from an affected hemizygote revealed a g+1 to t transversion in the invariant gt consensus 5'-splice site of intron 6, which resulted in the deletion of the entire exon 6 sequence. This novel splicing lesion causing Fabry disease is the first g+1 to t transversion of a mammalian 5'-splice site that consistently eliminates the preceding exon.
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- H Sakuraba
- Division of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York 10029
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Jeunemaitre X, Lifton RP, Hunt SC, Williams RR, Lalouel JM. Absence of linkage between the angiotensin converting enzyme locus and human essential hypertension. Nat Genet 1992; 1:72-5. [PMID: 1338766 DOI: 10.1038/ng0492-72] [Citation(s) in RCA: 282] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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The angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) is a key component of the renin angiotensin system that contributes to the regulation of blood pressure (BP). Recent demonstration of linkage between the ACE locus and elevated BP in a rat model of hypertension has further emphasized ACE as a candidate gene in human hypertension. We report the localization of the ACE gene on the genetic map of chromosome 17, and identify an extremely polymorphic marker at the human growth hormone (hGH) locus which shows no recombination with ACE. We have found no evidence to support linkage between the ACE locus and hypertension, which suggests that mutations at the ACE locus do not commonly contribute to the pathogenesis of hypertension in our test population.
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- X Jeunemaitre
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Utah, Health Sciences Center, Salt Lake City 84112
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Leidig F, Shepard AR, Zhang WG, Stelter A, Cattini PA, Baxter JD, Eberhardt NL. Thyroid hormone responsiveness in human growth hormone-related genes. Possible correlation with receptor-induced DNA conformational changes. J Biol Chem 1992. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)48371-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Hanson R, Sclar G, Kanagawa O, Ley T. The 5'-flanking region of the human CGL-1/granzyme B gene targets expression of a reporter gene to activated T-lymphocytes in transgenic mice. J Biol Chem 1991. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)54247-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Chen EY, Cheng A, Lee A, Kuang WJ, Hillier L, Green P, Schlessinger D, Ciccodicola A, D'Urso M. Sequence of human glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase cloned in plasmids and a yeast artificial chromosome. Genomics 1991; 10:792-800. [PMID: 1889820 DOI: 10.1016/0888-7543(91)90465-q] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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The sequence of 20,114 bp of DNA including the human glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) gene was determined. The region included a prominent CpG island, starting about 680 nucleotides upstream of the transcription start site, extending about 1050 nucleotides downstream of the start site, and ending just at the start of the first intron. The transcribed region from the start site to the poly(A) addition site covers 15,860 bp. The sequence of the 13 exons agreed with published cDNA sequence and for the 11 exons tested, with the corresponding sequence in a yeast artificial chromosome (YAC). The latter confirms YAC cloning fidelity at the DNA sequence level. Sixteen Alu sequences constitute 24% of the total sequence tract. Four were outside the borders of the mRNA transcript of the gene; all the others were found in a large (9858 bp) intron between exons 2 and 3. Two Alu clusters each contain Alus lying between the monomers of another.
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- E Y Chen
- Department of Molecular Biology, Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, California 94080
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Mutational analysis and protein engineering of receptor-binding determinants in human placental lactogen. J Biol Chem 1991. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)99116-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Sp1 and thyroid hormone receptor differentially activate expression of human growth hormone and chorionic somatomammotropin genes. J Biol Chem 1991. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)92891-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Bier DM. Growth hormone and insulin-like growth factor I: nutritional pathophysiology and therapeutic potential. ACTA PAEDIATRICA SCANDINAVICA. SUPPLEMENT 1991; 374:119-28. [PMID: 1957615 DOI: 10.1111/j.1651-2227.1991.tb12014.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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The growth hormone--insulin-like growth factor I axis has been appreciated for more than 30 years and the effects of malnutrition on this axis for more than 20 years. Over the last decade, advances in molecular biology have permitted enhanced understanding of feedback regulation between growth hormone and IGF-I at the gene level, including limited information on nutritional influences. Similarly, the availability of recombinant human growth hormone has allowed controlled clinical studies demonstrating its net anabolic actions at hypocaloric dietary energy intake levels and its ability to enhance height velocity in children with various causes of diminished growth. Although investigational use of recombinant IGF-I in humans has been limited, its actions are likely to complement those of growth hormone during periods of profound dietary energy deficit. From the information presented, two hypotheses are developed. First, recombinant IGF-I administration will enhance substrate anabolic events during the acutely malnourished state when dietary intake is severely limited. Second, administration of recombinant human growth hormone will accelerate protein anabolism and catch-up growth during the period of recovery from protein-energy malnutrition. Given current clinical investigational tools and the availability of both recombinantly-produced hormones, these are testable hypotheses.
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- D M Bier
- Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110
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Three exon constructs containing identical intron and exon sequences were mutated at the 5' splice site beginning intron 2 and assayed for the effect of the mutation on splicing of the upstream intron in vitro. Alteration of two or six bases within the 5' splice site reduced removal of intron 1 at least 20-fold, as determined by quantitation of either spliced product or released lariat RNA. The prominent product was skip splicing of exon 1 to exon 3. Examination of complex formation indicated that mutation of the 5' splice site terminating exon 2 depressed the ability of precursor RNAs containing just the affected exon to direct assembly in vitro. These results suggest that mutation at the end of an internal exon inhibits the ability of the exon to be recognized by splicing factors. A comparison of the known vertebrate 5' splice site mutations in which the mutation resides at the end of an internal exon indicated that exon skipping is the preferred phenotype for this type of mutation, in agreement with the in vitro observation reported here. Inhibition of splicing by mutation at the distal and of the exon supports the suggestion that exons, rather than splice sites, are the recognition units for assembly of the spliceosome.
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Vnencak-Jones CL, Phillips JA. Hot spots for growth hormone gene deletions in homologous regions outside of Alu repeats. Science 1990; 250:1745-8. [PMID: 1980158 DOI: 10.1126/science.1980158] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Familial growth hormone deficiency type 1A is an autosomal recessive disease caused by deletion of both growth hormone-1 (GH1) alleles. Ten patients from heterogeneous geographic origins showed differences in restriction fragment length polymorphism haplotypes in nondeleted regions that flanked GH1, suggesting that these deletions arose from independent unequal recombination events. Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) samples from nine of ten patients showed that crossovers occurred within 99% homologous, 594-base pair (bp) segments that flanked GH1. A DNA sample from one patient indicated that the crossover occurred within 454-bp segments that flanked GH1 and contained 274-bp repeats that are 98% homologous. Although Alu repeats, which are frequent sites of recombination, are adjacent to GH1, they were not involved in any of the recombination events studied. These results suggest that length and degree of DNA sequence homology are important in defining recombination sites that resulted in GH1 deletions.
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- C L Vnencak-Jones
- Department of Pathology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37232
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Three exon constructs containing identical intron and exon sequences were mutated at the 5' splice site beginning intron 2 and assayed for the effect of the mutation on splicing of the upstream intron in vitro. Alteration of two or six bases within the 5' splice site reduced removal of intron 1 at least 20-fold, as determined by quantitation of either spliced product or released lariat RNA. The prominent product was skip splicing of exon 1 to exon 3. Examination of complex formation indicated that mutation of the 5' splice site terminating exon 2 depressed the ability of precursor RNAs containing just the affected exon to direct assembly in vitro. These results suggest that mutation at the end of an internal exon inhibits the ability of the exon to be recognized by splicing factors. A comparison of the known vertebrate 5' splice site mutations in which the mutation resides at the end of an internal exon indicated that exon skipping is the preferred phenotype for this type of mutation, in agreement with the in vitro observation reported here. Inhibition of splicing by mutation at the distal and of the exon supports the suggestion that exons, rather than splice sites, are the recognition units for assembly of the spliceosome.
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- M Talerico
- Marrs McClean Department of Biochemistry, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030
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Elliott RW, Lee BK, Eicher EM. Localization of the growth hormone gene to the distal half of mouse chromosome 11. Genomics 1990; 8:591-4. [PMID: 2286379 DOI: 10.1016/0888-7543(90)90051-u] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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A DNA fragment size variant for the growth hormone gene, Gh, has been identified among inbred strains of mice. The inbred strains SM/J and CAST/Ei carry the less frequent allele Ghb and 11 other strains carry the Gha allele. Segregation analysis of data from two crosses involving SM/J and NZB/BINJ and a cross involving BALB/cJ and CAST/Ei confirmed the assignment of Gh to mouse chromosome 11 and placed the locus 2.6 +/- 1.8 map units distal to Erba (avian erythroblastosis oncogene A), a position consistent with the assignment of the Gh locus to the q22-q24 region of chromosome 17 on the human map. Segregation analysis also refined the location of Sparc (secreted acidic cysteine-rich glycoprotein) on mouse chromosome 11 to a position 16.7 +/- 4.2 map units proximal to Evi-2 (ecotropic viral integration site 2).
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- R W Elliott
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Roswell Park Memorial Institute, New York State Department of Health, Buffalo 14263
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A difference in the splicing patterns of the closely related normal and variant human growth hormone gene transcripts is determined by a minimal sequence divergence between two potential splice-acceptor sites. J Biol Chem 1990. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(17)45452-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Ikemura T, Wada K, Aota S. Giant G+C% mosaic structures of the human genome found by arrangement of GenBank human DNA sequences according to genetic positions. Genomics 1990; 8:207-16. [PMID: 2249845 DOI: 10.1016/0888-7543(90)90273-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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To determine the overall variation in the G+C% distribution over long ranges of the human genome, DNA sequences of human genes, which were closely linked genetically or physically, were surveyed from the GenBank Data Bank. A total of 72 sequences longer than 2 kb, which were mutually linked within 500 kb, were identified. The sequences belonged to 17 linkage groups and were ordered in each group according to their genetic positions. Analyses of the G+C% distribution along the ordered sequences showed that sequences within each group almost always had similar G+C% levels, but those belonging to different groups often had different levels. Similar analyses of more distantly linked sequences (e.g., greater than 10 Mb) showed mosaic structures of G+C% distribution. These findings are consistent with predictions made from the "isochore" structures found by CsCl equilibrium centrifugation, in that the structures having homogeneous base compositions stretched over at least several hundred kilobases. A possible boundary of the giant G+C% mosaic structures was identified between X-linked G6PD and F8C.
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- T Ikemura
- DNA Research Center, National Institute of Genetics, Shizuoka-ken, Japan
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Reséndez-Pérez D, Ramírez-Solís R, Varela-Echavarría A, Martínez-Rodríguez HG, Barrera-Saldaña HA. Coding potential of transfected human placental lactogen genes. Nucleic Acids Res 1990; 18:4665-70. [PMID: 2395633 PMCID: PMC331912 DOI: 10.1093/nar/18.16.4665] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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We have joined the promoter-less sequences of the three hPL genes (hPL-1, hPL-3 and hPL-4) to strong transcriptional control elements. in vivo 35S-labeled proteins from the culture medium of cells transfected with the genes were resolved on SDS-polyacrylamide gels. The presence of characteristic labeled bands, visualized by autoradiography, determined that hPL-4 and hPL-3, but not hPL-1, contribute to the production of mature hPL. In these experiments hPL-3 expressed more RNA and protein than hPL-4. By exchanging the first two exons among hPL and hGH genes, we determined that the abundance of chimeric proteins depended on the genetic origin of the first two exons. Finally, we found evidence indicating that the splice mutation (G----A) at the beginning of the second intron of hPL-1, is not the only cause of the apparent lack of inactivity of this gene, since its reversion does not restore expression.
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- D Reséndez-Pérez
- Departamento de Bioquímica, Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Monterrey, Mexico
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Walker WH, Fitzpatrick SL, Saunders GF. Human placental lactogen transcriptional enhancer. Tissue specificity and binding with specific proteins. J Biol Chem 1990. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)38250-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Retroviral and pseudogene insertion sites reveal the lineage of human salivary and pancreatic amylase genes from a single gene during primate evolution. Mol Cell Biol 1990. [PMID: 1692956 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.10.6.2513] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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We have analyzed the junction regions of inserted elements within the human amylase gene complex. This complex contains five genes which are expressed at high levels either in the pancreas or in the parotid gland. The proximal 5'-flanking regions of these genes contain two inserted elements. A gamma-actin pseudogene is located at a position 200 base pairs upstream of the first coding exon. All of the amylase genes contain this insert. The subsequent insertion of an endogenous retrovirus interrupted the gamma-actin pseudogene within its 3'-untranslated region. Nucleotide sequence analysis of the inserted elements associated with each of the five human amylase genes has revealed a series of molecular events during the recent history of this gene family. The data indicate that the entire gene family was generated during primate evolution from one ancestral gene copy and that the retroviral insertion activated a cryptic promoter.
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Samuelson LC, Wiebauer K, Snow CM, Meisler MH. Retroviral and pseudogene insertion sites reveal the lineage of human salivary and pancreatic amylase genes from a single gene during primate evolution. Mol Cell Biol 1990; 10:2513-20. [PMID: 1692956 PMCID: PMC360608 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.10.6.2513-2520.1990] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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We have analyzed the junction regions of inserted elements within the human amylase gene complex. This complex contains five genes which are expressed at high levels either in the pancreas or in the parotid gland. The proximal 5'-flanking regions of these genes contain two inserted elements. A gamma-actin pseudogene is located at a position 200 base pairs upstream of the first coding exon. All of the amylase genes contain this insert. The subsequent insertion of an endogenous retrovirus interrupted the gamma-actin pseudogene within its 3'-untranslated region. Nucleotide sequence analysis of the inserted elements associated with each of the five human amylase genes has revealed a series of molecular events during the recent history of this gene family. The data indicate that the entire gene family was generated during primate evolution from one ancestral gene copy and that the retroviral insertion activated a cryptic promoter.
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- L C Samuelson
- Department of Human Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109-0618
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Nickel BE, Kardami E, Cattini PA. Differential expression of human placental growth-hormone variant and chorionic somatomammotropin in culture. Biochem J 1990; 267:653-8. [PMID: 2339980 PMCID: PMC1131347 DOI: 10.1042/bj2670653] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Regulation of human placental growth-hormone variant (hGH-V) in the presence of its own promoter has been studied. At term, 10-20% of placental mRNA is specific for chorionic somatomammotropin (hCS-A and -B) compared with 0.05% hGH-V, yet these genes show more than 90% sequence similarity at the nucleotide level. By using stable gene transfer of intact hGH-V and hCS-A genes into rat pituitary (GC) cells, synthesis and release of hGH-V and hCS are detected. This suggests that hGH-V as well as hCS is secreted during pregnancy. The hCS-A mRNA level is higher than that observed from the hGH-V gene in stably transfected GC cells. Also, a hybrid gene containing hGH-V 5'-flanking DNA was less active than a hybrid hCS-A gene containing equivalent sequences after transient transfection of these cells. This correlates with the binding of a known transcription factor to a proximal region (-97/-66) of the hCS-A promoter, and not the equivalent hGH-V gene sequences. These results indicate that differential expression of hGH-V and hCS in GC cells is related, in part, to the strength of their respective promoters, and suggest a similar mechanism may exist in the placenta.
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- B E Nickel
- Department of Physiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
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Nickel BE, Nachtigal MN, Klassen ME, Cattini PA. Human growth hormone gene expression in rat but not human non-pituitary cells after stable gene transfer. Mol Cell Endocrinol 1990; 69:93-9. [PMID: 2328831 DOI: 10.1016/0303-7207(90)90002-p] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Tissue-specific expression of the rat growth hormone (rGH) gene requires binding of a pituitary-specific factor. Binding of this factor has been used to explain tissue-specific expression of the human growth hormone (hGH-N) gene in transfected rat pituitary (GC) tumour cells. Neither rat fibroblast (R2) nor human cervical carcinoma (HeLa) cells contain the rat pituitary-specific factor. Thus, no expression of hGH-N or rGH would be expected in these cells. R2 cell lines containing stably integrated hGH-N or rGH genes were generated. Expression of hGH-N but not rGH was detected. By contrast, stably transfected HeLa cells did not express the endogenous or transfected hGH-N genes. However, an hGH-N transcript was detected when hGH-N gene expression was directed by a viral promoter. This suggests that the block in expression occurs at the level of transcription and not mRNA stability. Hybrid genes containing 496 base pairs (bp) of hGH-N or 234 bp of rGH 5'-flanking DNA, including promoter sequences, fused to the bacterial gene coding for chloramphenicol acetyltransferase were used to stably transfect R2 cells. The hybrid hGH-N gene was more active than a promoterless construction in these cells. By contrast, the hybrid rGH gene was not. These data suggest that the hGH-N gene can be activated by rat transcription factors other than those found in pituitary cells.
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- B E Nickel
- Department of Physiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
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Dal Toso R, Sommer B, Ewert M, Herb A, Pritchett DB, Bach A, Shivers BD, Seeburg PH. The dopamine D2 receptor: two molecular forms generated by alternative splicing. EMBO J 1989; 8:4025-34. [PMID: 2531656 PMCID: PMC401577 DOI: 10.1002/j.1460-2075.1989.tb08585.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 444] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Cloned human dopamine D2 receptor cDNA was isolated from a pituitary cDNA library and found to encode an additional 29 amino acid residues in the predicted intracellular domain between transmembrane regions 5 and 6 relative to a previously described rat brain D2 receptor. Results from polymerase chain reactions as well as in situ hybridization revealed that mRNA encoding both receptor forms is present in pituitary and brain of both rat and man. The larger form was predominant in these tissues and, as shown in the rat, expressed by dopaminergic and dopaminoceptive neurons. Analysis of the human gene showed that the additional peptide sequence is encoded by a separate exon. Hence, the two receptor forms are generated by differential splicing possibly to permit coupling to different G proteins. Both receptors expressed in cultured mammalian cells bind [3H]spiperone with high affinity and inhibit adenylyl cyclase, as expected of the D2 receptor subtype.
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- R Dal Toso
- Laboratory of Molecular Neuroendocrinology, ZMBH, Heidelberg, FRG
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Chang MS, Lowe DG, Lewis M, Hellmiss R, Chen E, Goeddel DV. Differential activation by atrial and brain natriuretic peptides of two different receptor guanylate cyclases. Nature 1989; 341:68-72. [PMID: 2570358 DOI: 10.1038/341068a0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 446] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Alpha atrial natriuretic peptide (alpha-ANP) and brain natriuretic peptide are homologous polypeptide hormones involved in the regulation of fluid and electrolyte homeostasis. These two natriuretic peptides apparently share common receptors and stimulate the intracellular production of cyclic GMP as a second messenger. Molecular cloning has defined two types of natriuretic peptide receptors: the ANP-C receptor of relative molecular mass (Mr) 60-70,000 (60-70 K), which is not coupled to cGMP production and may function in the clearance of ANP and the ANP-A receptor of Mr 120-140 K, which is a membrane form of guanylate cyclase in which ligand binding to the extracellular domain activates the cytoplasmic domain of the enzyme. Here we report the cloning and expression of a second human natriuretic peptide-receptor guanylate cyclase, the ANP-B receptor. The ANP-B receptor is preferentially activated by porcine brain natriuretic peptide rather than human alpha-ANP, whereas the ANP-A receptor responds similarly to both natriuretic peptides. These observations may have important implications for our understanding of the central and peripheral control of cardiovascular homeostasis.
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- M S Chang
- Department of Molecular Biology, Genentech Inc., South San Francisco, California 94080
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