Structure of the guinea pig neutrophil cationic peptide gene

FEBS Letters

Nagaoka, Isao¹  Iwabuchi, Kazuhisa¹  Someya, Akimasa¹  Yamashita, Tatsuhisa¹ 

[1] Department of Biochemistry, Juntendo University, School of Medicine, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113, Japan

关键词: Neutrophil cationic peptide;    Antimicrobial peptide;    Gene structure;    Primer extension;    Guinea pig;    GNCP;    guinea pig neutrophil cationic peptide;   

DOI  :  10.1016/0014-5793(92)80471-R

学科分类：生物化学/生物物理

来源: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

【 摘 要 】

Guinea pig neutrophils contain the antimicrobial cationic peptides GNCP-1 and GNCP-2 in the granules. In this study, the GNCP gene was isolated, and the structure was characterized. Using cDNA probes, one phage clone was isolated from a guinea pig genomic library. The gene spanned > 3 kb, and comprised three exons and two introns. Sequence analysis revealed that the gene encoded GNCP-2. Exon 1 mainly coded for the 5′ untranslated region, exon 2 coded for the prepro-peptide region of GNCP-2, and exon 3 coded for the mature peptide region of GNCP-2 and the 3′ untranslated region. Primer extension analysis indicated that the transcription initiation site was located to a thymidine residue, 93 bp upstream of the ATG initiation codon or GNCP-2 mRNA. A possible TATA box was located 24 bp upstream or the transcription start site. Interestingly, the pyrimidine-rich sequences identified in the promoter regions of the human neutrophil elastase and myeloperoxidase genes were also found in the 5′ flanking region of the GNCP-2 gene.

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