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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
卷 276, 期 4, 页码 2831-2840出版社
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M007421200
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- NEI NIH HHS [EY 13089] Funding Source: Medline
We have characterized NORPEG, a novel gene from human retinal pigment epithelial cells (ARPE-19), in which its expression is induced by all-trans-retinoic acid. Two transcripts (similar to3 and similar to5 kilobases in size) have been detected for this gene, which is localized to chromosome band 5p13.2-13.3. Placenta and testis showed the highest level of expression among various human tissues tested. Six ankyrin repeats and a long coiled-coil domain are present in the predicted sequence of the NORPEG protein, which contains 980 amino acid residues. This similar to 110-kDa protein was transiently expressed in COS-7 cells as a FLAG fusion protein and immunolocalized to the cytoplasm, Confocal microscopic analysis of the NORPEG protein in ARPE-19 cells showed threadlike projections in the cytoplasm reminiscent of the cytoskeleton, Consistent with this localization, the expressed NORPEG protein showed resistance to solubilization by Triton X-100 and KCl. An ortholog of NORPEG characterized from mouse encoded a protein that showed 91% sequence similarity to the human NORPEG protein. The expression of Norpeg mRNA was detected in mouse embryo at embryonic day 9.5 by in situ hybridization, and the expression appears to be developmentally regulated. In adult mouse, the highest level of expression was detected in the seminiferous tubules of testis.
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