Alternative transcriptional initiation and alternative use of polyadenylation signals in the αβ-crystallin gene expressed in different chicken tissues

Gene

Volumn 187, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 253-257

  Macip, Salvador ^a   Mezquita, Cristóbal ^a   Mezquita, Jovita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Embryogenesis; Gene expression; Polyubiquitin UbII; Spermatogenesis

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CRYSTALLIN; ISOPROTEIN; POLYUBIQUITIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHICK EMBRYO; CHICKEN; DUCK; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; HEART; MUSCLE; NONHUMAN; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TESTIS; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOPOLYMERS; CHICK EMBRYO; CHICKENS; CRYSTALLINS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLY A; POLYUBIQUITIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TESTIS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; UBIQUITINS;

ANAS SP.; ANIMALIA; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 0030966016     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(96)00763-9     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Bhat, S.P. and Nagineni, C.N. (1989) Alpha subunit B of lens-specific protein α-crystallin is present in other ocular and non-ocular tissues. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 158, 319-325.
2. Dubin, R.A., Wawrousek, E.F. and Piatigorsky, J. (1989) Expression of the murine alpha B-crystallin gene is not restricted to the lens. Mol. Cell Biol. 9, 1083-1091.
3. 32P-based hybridizations. Anal. Biochem. 210, 235-244.
4. Frederikse, P.H., Dubin, R.A., Haynes, J.I. and Piatigorsky, J. (1994) Structure and alternate tissue-preferred transcription initiation of the mouse alpha B-crystallin/small heat shock protein gene. Nucleic Acids Res. 22, 5686-5694.
5. Gu, W., Morales, C. and Hecht, N.B. (1995) In male mouse germ cells, copper-zinc superoxide dismutase utilizes alternative promoters that produce multiple transcripts with different translation potential. J. Biol. Chem. 270, 236-243.
6. Horwitz, J. ( 1992) α-Crystallin can function as a molecular chaperone. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 89, 10449-10453.
7. Iwaki, T., Kume-Iwaki, A., Liem, R.K. and Goldman, J.E. (1989) Alpha B-crystallin is expressed in non-lenticular tissues and accumulates in Alexander's disease brain. Cell 57, 71-78.
8. Iwaki, A., Iwaki, T., Goldman, J.E. and Liem, R.K. (1990) Multiple mRNAs of rat brain α-crystallin B chain result from alternative transcriptional initiation. J. Biol. Chem. 265, 22197-22203.
9. Kantorow, M. and Piatigorsky, J. (1994) α-Crystallin/small heat shock protein has autokinase activity. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 91, 3112-3116.
10. Kleene, K.C., Distel, R.J. and Hecht, N.B. (1984) Translational regulation and deadenylation of a protamine mRNA during spermiogenesis in the mouse. Dev. Biol. 105, 77-79.
11. Klemenz, R., Frohli, E., Aoyama, A., Hoffmann, S., Simpson, R.J., Moritz, R.L. and Schafer, R. (1991) Alpha B crystallin accumulation is a specific response to Ha-ras and v-mos oncogene expression in mouse NIH 3T3 fibroblasts. Mol. Cell. Biol. 11, 803-812
12. Klemenz, R. Scheier, B., Muller, A., Steiger R. and Aoyama A. (1994) Alpha B crystallin expression in response to hormone, oncogenes and stress. Verh. Dtsch. Ges. Pathol. 78: 34-35
13. Lee, D.C., Kim, R.Y. and Wistow, G.J. (1993) An avian alpha B-crystallin. Non-lens expression and sequence similarities with both small (HSP27) and large (HSP70) heat shock proteins. J. Mol. Biol. 232, 1221-1226.
14. Mezquita, J. Lopez-Ibor, B. Pau, M. and Mezquita, C. (1993) Intron and intronless transcription of the chicken polyubiquitin gene UbII. FEBS Lett. 319, 244-248.
15. Mezquita, J., Pau, M. and Mezquita, C. (1994) A novel carbonic anhydrase II mRNA isolated from mature chicken testis displays a TATA box and other promoter sequences in a leader 5′ untranslated region not present in somatic tissues. Gene 147, 231-235.
16. Sax, C.M. and Piatigorsky, J. (1994) Expression of the α-crystallin/small heat shock protein/molecular chaperone genes in the lens and other tissues. Adv. Enzymol. 69, 155-201.
17. Sawada, K., Agata, K. and Eguchi, G. (1992) Crystallin gene expression in the process of lentoidogenesis in cultures of chicken lens epithelial cells. Exp. Eye Res. 55, 879-887.
18. Scotting, P., McDermott, H. and Mayer, R.J. (1991) Ubiquitin-protein conjugates and αB crystallin are selectively present in cells undergoing major cytomorphological reorganisation in early chicken embryos. FEBS Lett. 285, 75-79.
19. Srinivasan A.N. and Bhat, S.P. (1994) Complete structure and expression of the rat alpha B-crystallin gene. DNA Cell Biol. 13, 651-661.
20. Wistow, G. and Graham, C. (1995) The duck gene for alpha B-crystallin shows evolutionary conservation of discrete promoter elements but lacks heat and osmotic shock response. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1263, 105-113