title: Primary structure of rabbit skeletal muscle glycogen synthase deduced from cDNA clones.
abstract: The complete amino acid sequence of rabbit skeletal muscle glycogen synthase was deduced from cDNA clones with a composite length of 3317 bp. An mRNA of 3.6 kb was identified by Northern blot analysis of rabbit skeletal muscle RNA. The mRNA coded for a protein of 734 residues with a molecular weight of 83,480. The deduced NH2-terminal and COOH-terminal sequences corresponded to those reported for the purified protein, indicating the absence of any proteolytic processing. At the nucleotide level, the 5' untranslated and coding regions were 79 and 90% identical for rabbit and human muscle glycogen synthases, whereas the 3' untranslated regions were significantly less similar. The enzymes had 97% amino acid sequence identity. Interestingly, the NH2 and COOH termini of rabbit and human muscle glycogen synthase, the regions of phosphorylation, showed the greatest sequence variation (15 of 19 mismatches and two insertion/deletion events), which may indicate different evolutionary constraints in the regulatory and catalytic regions of the molecule.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis 46223.
authors.forename: W M
authors.initials: WM
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: M F
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Browner
authors.forename: R J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Fletterick
authors.forename: A A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: DePaoli-Roach
authors.forename: P J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Roach
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001482:Base Composition; D001483:Base Sequence; D003062:Codon; D004247:DNA / Q000235:genetics*; D006006:Glycogen Synthase / Q000235:genetics*; D006801:Humans; D007526:Isoelectric Point; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009132:Muscles / Q000201:enzymology*; D009693:Nucleic Acid Hybridization; D011817:Rabbits; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
chemical_list: D003062:Codon; D004247:DNA; D006006:Glycogen Synthase