TY - JOUR
T1 - Molecular cloning, genomic organization, and mapping of β4GalT-VIb, a brain abundant member of β4-galactosyltransferase gene family, to human chromosome 18q12.1
AU - Fan, Yuxin
AU - Yu, Long
AU - Tu, Qiang
AU - Gong, Ruomu
AU - Jiang, Ying
AU - Zhang, Qi
AU - Dai, Fangyan
AU - Chen, Chiyuan
AU - Zhao, Shouyuan
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the National 973 and 863 High Technology Programs (863-Z-102-19-04-04) and the National Science Foundation of China (39870162).
PY - 2002
Y1 - 2002
N2 - In the present study, a brain abundant member of β4- galactosyltransferase gene family with an open reading frame encoding 343 amino acids was cloned and identified from a human leukemia cell cDNA library. The putative protein sequence is about 94.8 and 94.2% identical to the 382-amino-acid mouse and rat β4-galactosyltransferase respectively and also contains cysteine residues previously shown to be important for the function of the gene family members. This cDNA (tentatively termed β4GalT-VIb) is identical to a recently reported cDNA (tentatively termed β4GalT-VIa) of human β4-galactosyltransferase except lacking one exon, suggesting that these two cDNAs are two different alternative transcripts of the same gene. Northern hybridization showed that the new alternative transcript, β4GalT-VIb, is expressed in all 16 human tissues tested with highest level in brain and rich level in testis, thymus and pancreas, whereas weak expression was detected in lung. The β4GalT-VIb gene was located to human chromosome 18q12.1 between markers WI-9180 and SGC35630 by radiation hybrid mapping. The genomic organization and adjacent gene content of β4GalT-VIb were identified by comparing its cDNA sequence with three genomic sequences AC017100, AP002474 and AP001336, which showed that β4GalT-VIb spans an ∼58 λ kb region and is composed of 8 exons. In addition, the most conserved motif composed of 41 residues, LXYX 3 FGGVSXL(T/S)X 2 QFX 2 INGFPNX(Y/F) WGWGGEDDDX 2 NR, was defined according to 17 sequences of β4GalTs from seven different organisms for the first time.
AB - In the present study, a brain abundant member of β4- galactosyltransferase gene family with an open reading frame encoding 343 amino acids was cloned and identified from a human leukemia cell cDNA library. The putative protein sequence is about 94.8 and 94.2% identical to the 382-amino-acid mouse and rat β4-galactosyltransferase respectively and also contains cysteine residues previously shown to be important for the function of the gene family members. This cDNA (tentatively termed β4GalT-VIb) is identical to a recently reported cDNA (tentatively termed β4GalT-VIa) of human β4-galactosyltransferase except lacking one exon, suggesting that these two cDNAs are two different alternative transcripts of the same gene. Northern hybridization showed that the new alternative transcript, β4GalT-VIb, is expressed in all 16 human tissues tested with highest level in brain and rich level in testis, thymus and pancreas, whereas weak expression was detected in lung. The β4GalT-VIb gene was located to human chromosome 18q12.1 between markers WI-9180 and SGC35630 by radiation hybrid mapping. The genomic organization and adjacent gene content of β4GalT-VIb were identified by comparing its cDNA sequence with three genomic sequences AC017100, AP002474 and AP001336, which showed that β4GalT-VIb spans an ∼58 λ kb region and is composed of 8 exons. In addition, the most conserved motif composed of 41 residues, LXYX 3 FGGVSXL(T/S)X 2 QFX 2 INGFPNX(Y/F) WGWGGEDDDX 2 NR, was defined according to 17 sequences of β4GalTs from seven different organisms for the first time.
KW - Genomic organization
KW - Radiation hybrid mapping
KW - Tissue expression patterns
KW - cDNA cloning
KW - β4-galactosyltransferase
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U2 - 10.1080/10425170290019838
DO - 10.1080/10425170290019838
M3 - Article
C2 - 12180132
AN - SCOPUS:0036463438
SN - 1940-1736
VL - 13
SP - 1
EP - 8
JO - Mitochondrial DNA
JF - Mitochondrial DNA
IS - 1
ER -