title: Isolation and sequence of a cDNA encoding mouse IMP dehydrogenase.
abstract: Inosinic acid (IMP) dehydrogenase (IMPD) catalyzes the conversion of IMP to XMP as the first committed step in GMP biosynthesis de novo. We have isolated a cDNA containing the complete coding region of mouse IMPD by its ability to complement a bacterial mutant lacking IMPD activity. Two independent cDNA clones were isolated by complementation, of which the longest was 1.7 kb in length. Northern analyses, using the IMPD cDNA as a probe, indicated that mature IMPD mRNA was a single species approx. 2.0 kb in size. Mouse IMPD is almost identical to Chinese hamster and human IMPDs and is highly conserved between Escherichia coli and mouse, with a direct amino acid (aa) identity of 39%, which increases to 60% if conserved aa are considered. The leader region of our longest cDNA clone is G + C-rich and contains two tandem copies of a G + C-rich direct repeat.
authors.affiliation: Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, WA 98109-1651.
authors.forename: A A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Tiedeman
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Smith
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D015152:Blotting, Northern; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D006224:Cricetinae; D004247:DNA / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000235:genetics; D005816:Genetic Complementation Test; D006801:Humans; D007168:IMP Dehydrogenase / Q000235:genetics*; D051379:Mice; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D015183:Restriction Mapping; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
chemical_list: D004247:DNA; D007168:IMP Dehydrogenase