title: Human T lymphocytes express a protein-tyrosine kinase homologous to p56LSTRA.
abstract: We have used oligonucleotide probes, based on a portion of the p60v-src autophosphorylation sequence, Glu-Asp-Asn-Glu-Tyr-Thr, to identify and characterize a cDNA from the human T-leukemia cell line, JURKAT. The JURKAT cDNA (designated ptk-JURKAT) was homologous to but distinct from the src, yes and fgr oncogenes, which encode protein-tyrosine kinases (ATP:protein phosphotransferase, EC 2.7.1.37). The ptk-JURKAT cDNA hybridized with a 2.2 kb RNA transcript from JURKAT cells and the human T-cell lymphoma line, MOLT-4, but failed to identify any transcript in two human B-cell lymphoma lines or a human erythroid-myeloid leukemia line, K562. Recently the nucleotide sequence has been established for the murine lymphocyte protein tyrosine kinase, p56LSTRA. The ptk-JURKAT cDNA appears to encode the human homolog of p56LSTRA.
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D002460:Cell Line; D004247:DNA / Q000235:genetics; D004273:DNA, Neoplasm / Q000235:genetics; D006801:Humans; D007938:Leukemia / Q000201:enzymology; D008223:Lymphoma / Q000201:enzymology*; D051379:Mice; D011505:Protein-Tyrosine Kinases / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid; D013601:T-Lymphocytes / Q000201:enzymology*
chemical_list: D004273:DNA, Neoplasm; D004247:DNA; D011505:Protein-Tyrosine Kinases