Isolation of multiple mouse cDNAs with coding homology to Saccharomyces cerevisiae CDC25: identification of a region related to Bcr, Vav, Dbl and CDC24
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- DOI: 10.1002/j.1460-2075.1992.tb05494.x
Isolation of multiple mouse cDNAs with coding homology to Saccharomyces cerevisiae CDC25: identification of a region related to Bcr, Vav, Dbl and CDC24
Abstract
In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the product of the CDC25 gene is an essential Ras activator that appears to function by stimulating guanine nucleotide exchange on Ras. Using the ability of a mouse cDNA expression library to complement yeast cells lacking functional CDC25, Martegani et al. have identified a 1.7 kb partial cDNA from a gene, designated CDC25Mm, with homology to CDC25. We have now screened a mouse brain cDNA library to identify full-length clones of CDC25Mm. This cloning has led to the isolation of six distinct full-length cDNAs, each of which appear to be derived from the CDC25Mm gene, since their 3' 2 kb appear to be identical and to encode the same 661 C-terminal amino acids. Three cDNAs are predicted to encode protein products of 666 or 667 amino acids. The other three cDNAs encode products that are 836, 1120 and 1260 amino acids, respectively. A 241 amino acid region near the N-terminus of the two largest products was found to have homology to a domain shared by Bcr, Vav, Dbl and CDC24. Polyclonal antibodies raised to a peptide encoded by all the cDNAs have identified at least two protein products in NIH3T3 fibroblasts. Their apparent molecular weights are 75 and 95 kDa, which correspond closely to those predicted to be encoded, respectively, by the two shorter classes of cDNAs. In NIH3T3, the 95 kDa form is much more abundant than the 75 kDa form, while PC-12 pheochromocytoma cells contain relatively high levels of the 75 kDa form. We conclude that CDC25Mm is a complex gene whose protein products are regulated in a tissue-specific manner.
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