title: Rat urate oxidase: cloning and structural analysis of the gene and 5'-flanking region.
abstract: The structural gene (UOX) encoding rat urate oxidase (UOX) spans at least 23 kb and is composed of eight exons and seven introns. All of the exon-intron splice junction sequences conformed to the GT/AG consensus established for eukaryotic genes. The transcription start point (tsp) was determined using S1-type nuclease protection riboprobe, and assigned to an adenine 54 nucleotides (nt) upstream of the ATG start codon. A 456-bp 5'-terminal fragment, starting at the ATG codon, carries a putative TATA (ATAAAA) sequence at -32, and two putative 'CAAT box' sequences at -62 and -71 bp upstream from the tsp. No sequence resembling 'GC' box hexanucleotides (GGGCGG or CCGCCC) was found. The structural features of the 5'-flanking region of the UOX gene are distinct from the 5'-flanking sequences of peroxisomal beta-oxidation system genes which contain one or more 'GC' box elements but lack TATA- and CAAT-like features [Osumi et al., J. Biol. Chem. 262 (1987) 8138-8143; Ishii et al., J. Biol. Chem. 262 (1987) 8144-8150]. The 5'-flanking region of the UOX gene reveals a sequence, TTAGTAATT at nt -276 from the tsp, which appears to be complementary to the underlined part of the liver-specific LF-B1/HNF-1 consensus sequence, GTTAATNATTAAC (where N = A, C, T, G or no nt).
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, IL 60611.
authors.forename: X D
authors.initials: XD
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kawano
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Alvares
authors.forename: P G
authors.initials: PG
authors.lastname: Reddy
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Getto
authors.forename: M S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Rao
authors.forename: J K
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Reddy
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D015139:Blotting, Southern; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D005091:Exons; D005796:Genes; D007438:Introns; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D014176:Protein Biosynthesis; D012326:RNA Splicing; D051381:Rats; D015183:Restriction Mapping; D014158:Transcription, Genetic; D014503:Urate Oxidase / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D014503:Urate Oxidase