title: Molecular cloning and sequence analysis of cDNAs for five major subunits of human proteasomes (multi-catalytic proteinase complexes).
abstract: Proteasomes are multicatalytic proteinase complexes consisting of a set of non-identical polypeptide components. Of these multiple components, the nucleotide sequences of five major subunits (named HC2, HC3, HC5, HC8 and HC9) of human proteasomes have been determined from recombinant cDNA clones by screening a human HepG2 hepatoblastoma cell cDNA library with rat proteasome cDNAs isolated previously as probes. The polypeptides deduced from their nucleotide sequences consisted of 263, 234, 241, 255 and 261 amino acid residues with calculated molecular weights of 29,554, 25,897, 26,487, 28,431 and 29,482, respectively, which are encoded by single independent genes. The primary structures of these subunits of human proteasomes closely resemble those of their rat counterparts and show considerably high inter-subunit homology, although the homology of HC5 is relatively low. These findings, together with the structural similarities of other eukaryotic proteasomes including those of Drosophila and yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) support and extend the previously proposed concept that eukaryotic proteasome genes form a multi-gene family with the same evolutionary origin.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Enzyme Research, University of Tokushima, Japan.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tamura
authors.forename: D H
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Osaka
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Fujiwara
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Shin
authors.forename: C H
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Chung
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Tanaka
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ichihara
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D002384:Catalysis; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D003546:Cysteine Endopeptidases / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics*; D004330:Drosophila; D006801:Humans; D008099:Liver / Q000201:enzymology; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009097:Multienzyme Complexes / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics*; D046988:Proteasome Endopeptidase Complex; D051381:Rats; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured
chemical_list: D009097:Multienzyme Complexes; D003546:Cysteine Endopeptidases; D046988:Proteasome Endopeptidase Complex