Cloning of cDNA encoding steroid 11. beta. -hydroxylase (P450c11)
The authors have isolated bovine and human adrenal cDNA clones encoding the adrenal cytochrome P-450 specific for 11..beta..-hydroxylation (P450c11). A bovine adrenal cDNA library constructed in the bacteriophage lambda vector gt10 was probed with a previously isolated cDNA clone corresponding to part of the 3' untranslated region of the 4.2-kilobase (kb) mRNA encoding P450c11. Several clones with 3.2-kb cDNA inserts were isolated. Sequence analysis showed that they overlapped the original probe by 300 base pairs (bp). Combined cDNA and RNA sequence data demonstrated a continuous open reading frame of 1509 bases. P450c11 is predicted to contain 479 amino acid residues in the mature protein in addition to a 24-residue amino-terminal mitochondrial signal sequence. A bovine clone was used to isolate a homologous clone with a 3.5-kb insert from a human adrenal cDNA library. A region of 1100 bp was 81% homologous to 769 bp of the coding sequence of the bovine cDNA except for a 400-bp segment presumed to be an unprocessed intron. Hybridization of the human cDNA to DNA from a panel of human-rodent somatic cell hybrid lines and in situ hybridization to metaphase spreads of human chromosomes localized the gene to the middle of the long arm of chromosome 8. These data should be useful in developing reagents for heterozygote detection and prenatal diagnosis of 11..beta..-hydroxylase deficiency, the second most frequent cause of congenital adrenal hyperplasia.
- Research Organization:
- Cornell Univ. Medical College, New York, NY (USA)
- OSTI ID:
- 7026957
- Journal Information:
- Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.; (United States), Vol. 84:20
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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