title: Structural and functional studies of full-length vascular cell adhesion molecule-1: internal duplication and homology to several adhesion proteins.
abstract: Full-length vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 (VCAM-1) cDNA cloned by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) of poly(A)+RNA from interleukin-1 (IL-1)-activated human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC) contained an insert of 276 nucleotides after position 1,034 of the previously published sequence. Synthetic oligomer probes, specific for each of the two possible species of VCAM-1 mRNA, detected only the longer form of VCAM-1 by Northern analysis of activated endothelial cell mRNA. This full-length VCAM-1 contains two internally repeated domains of approximately 273 amino acids with a high degree of homology. This new sequence information reveals homologies with additional members of the immunoglobulin superfamily and improves ALIGN scores for previously cited adhesion proteins. Removal of the transmembrane domain and the carboxy-terminal end of the full-length VCAM-1 molecule allows the molecule to be secreted into the culture medium from cells transfected with an expression vector containing the corresponding VCAM-1 cDNA.
authors.affiliation: Otsuka America Pharmaceutical Inc., Maryland Research Laboratories, Rockville 20850.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Polte
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Newman
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Raghunathan
authors.forename: T V
authors.initials: TV
authors.lastname: Gopal
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D015815:Cell Adhesion Molecules / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D002460:Cell Line; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D004730:Endothelium, Vascular / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D007739:L Cells / Q000502:physiology; D051379:Mice; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D008970:Molecular Weight; D015345:Oligonucleotide Probes; D011061:Poly A / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction / Q000379:methods; D012313:RNA / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification; D012333:RNA, Messenger; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000302:isolation & purification; D015183:Restriction Mapping; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid; D014162:Transfection; D014471:Umbilical Veins; D019010:Vascular Cell Adhesion Molecule-1
chemical_list: D015815:Cell Adhesion Molecules; D015345:Oligonucleotide Probes; D012333:RNA, Messenger; D011994:Recombinant Proteins; D019010:Vascular Cell Adhesion Molecule-1; D011061:Poly A; D012313:RNA