Molecular cloning and chromosomal assignment of the human brain-type phosphodiesterase I/nucleotide pyrophosphatase gene (PDNP2)
- Kobe Univ. School of Medicine (Japan); and others
Phosphodiesterase I/nucleotide pyrophosphatase is a widely expressed membrane-bound enzyme that cleaves diester bonds of a variety of substrates. We have cloned brain-type cDNA for this enzyme from rat brain and designated it PD-I{alpha}. In this study we have isolated cDNA and genomic DNA encoding human PD-I{alpha}. Human PD-I{alpha} cDNA, designated PDNP2 in HGMW nomenclature, has a 2589-nucleotide open reading frame encoding a polypeptide of 863 amino acids with a calculated M{sub r} of 99,034. Northern blot analysis revealed that human PD-I{alpha} transcript was present in brain, lung, placenta, and kidney. The database analysis showed that human PD-I{alpha} was identical with human autotaxin (ATX), a novel tumor motility-stimulating factor, except that human PD-I{alpha} lacks 156 nucleotides and 52 amino acids of human ATX. Human PD-I{alpha} and human ATX are likely to be alternative splicing products from the same gene. The 5{prime} region of the human PDNP2 gene contains four putative binding sites of transcription factor Sp1 without typical TATA or CAAT boxes, and there is a potential octamer binding motif in intron 2. From the results of fluorescence in situ hybridization, the human PDNP2 gene is located at chromosome 8q24.1. 17 refs., 3 figs.
- OSTI ID:
- 446989
- Journal Information:
- Genomics, Vol. 30, Issue 2; Other Information: PBD: 20 Nov 1995
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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