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. 1986 Oct;323(6087):455-8.
doi: 10.1038/323455a0.

Plasma and cytoplasmic gelsolins are encoded by a single gene and contain a duplicated actin-binding domain

D J Kwiatkowski, T P Stossel, S H Orkin, J E Mole, H R Colten, H L Yin

Plasma and cytoplasmic gelsolins are encoded by a single gene and contain a duplicated actin-binding domain

D J Kwiatkowski et al. Nature. 1986 Oct.

Abstract

Gelsolin is representative of a class of actin-modulating proteins found in lower eukaryotes to mammals, which sever actin filaments. Gelsolin found in the cytoplasm of cells is functionally similar to a mammalian plasma protein of similar size, originally called ADF or brevin. Human plasma and rabbit macrophage gelsolins differ by the presence of a 25-amino-acid residue extension on plasma gelsolin which appears to account for the difference in relative molecular mass (Mr) between the proteins as assessed by SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE), 93,000 (93K) and 90K, respectively. Here we report the isolation of full-length human plasma gelsolin complementary DNA clones from a HepG2 library. The inferred amino-acid sequence reveals the presence of a signal peptide, a long tandem repeat that matches the actin-binding domains of gelsolin, a tetrapeptide present in actin and extended regions of identical sequence with rabbit macrophage gelsolin. Southern blot analysis indicates that a single gene in the haploid genome encodes both protein forms.

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