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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 277, Issue 20, Pages 18084-18090Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M102285200
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Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) and human kallikrein 2 are closely related products of the human kallikrein genes KLK3 and KLK2, respectively. Both PSA and human kallikrein 2 are produced and secreted in the prostate and have important applications in the diagnosis of prostate cancer. We report here the identification of unusual mRNA splice variants of the KLK2 and KLK3 genes that result from inclusion of intronic sequences adjacent to the first exon. The novel proteins encoded by these transcripts, named PSA-linked molecule (PSA-LM) and hK2-linked molecule (K-LM), share only the signal peptide with the original protein product of the respective gene. The mature proteins are entirely different and bear no similarity to the kallikrein family or to other proteins in the databases. As is the case with PSA, PSA-LM is expressed in the secretory epithelial cells of the prostate and is up-regulated in response to androgenic stimulation. A similar pattern of expression is suggested for K-LM.
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