title: Cloning, sequencing, and regulation of rat liver carnitine octanoyltransferase: transcriptional stimulation of the enzyme during peroxisome proliferation.
abstract: Several complementary DNAs for the peroxisomal enzyme carnitine octanoyltransferase (COT), cloned in the expression vector lambda gt11, have been isolated. Together, these clones cover 2143 bp of the COT cDNA sequence with an open reading frame for 523 amino acids. Northern analysis showed the mRNA size for this enzyme to be 3.5 kilobases. The 523 residue long amino acid sequence amounts to a molecular mass of 60,269 daltons, indicating that the cloned cDNAs contain most or all of the coding sequence for COT (Mr approximately 62,000). Hybridization studies showed that the increased COT activity in the liver of rats, fed the potent peroxisome-proliferating drug Wy-14,643, is associated with a more than 40-fold rise in the steady-state level of the COT mRNA.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cellular and Structural Biology, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio 78284.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Chatterjee
authors.forename: C S
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Song
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: A K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Roy
mesh_terms: D000217:Acyltransferases / Q000378:metabolism*; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D000924:Anticholesteremic Agents; D001483:Base Sequence; D015152:Blotting, Northern; D002333:Carnitine Acyltransferases / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D004247:DNA / Q000235:genetics; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D008099:Liver / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D008830:Microbodies / Q000187:drug effects / Q000201:enzymology*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D008970:Molecular Weight; D009693:Nucleic Acid Hybridization; D011743:Pyrimidines / Q000494:pharmacology; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000235:genetics; D051381:Rats; D014158:Transcription, Genetic
chemical_list: D000924:Anticholesteremic Agents; D011743:Pyrimidines; D012333:RNA, Messenger; C006253:pirinixic acid; D004247:DNA; D000217:Acyltransferases; D002333:Carnitine Acyltransferases; C030162:carnitine octanoyltransferase