title: Isolation of the human MOX2 homeobox gene and localization to chromosome 7p22.1-p21.3.
abstract: We have isolated and characterized cDNA clones encoding a novel human homeobox gene, MOX2, the homologue of the murine mox-2 gene. The MOX2 protein contains all of the characteristic features of Mox-2 proteins of other vertebrate species, namely the homeobox, the polyhistidine stretch, and a number of potential serine/threonine phosphorylation sites. The homeodomain of MOX2 protein is identical to all other vertebrate species reported so far (rodents and amphibians). Outside the homeodomain, Mox-2 proteins share a high degree of identity, except for a few amino acid differences encountered between the human and the rodent polypeptides. A polyhistidine stretch of 12 amino acids in the N terminal region of the protein is also conserved among humans, rodents, and (only partly) amphibians. The chromosomal position of MOX2 was assigned to 7p22.1-p21.3.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Foundation for Research and Technology, Heraklion, Crete, Greece.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Grigoriou
authors.forename: M C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Kastrinaki
authors.forename: W S
authors.initials: WS
authors.lastname: Modi
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Theodorakis
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Mankoo
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Pachnis
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Karagogeos
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D002897:Chromosomes, Human, Pair 7; D018076:DNA, Complementary; D005801:Genes, Homeobox; D018398:Homeodomain Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D006801:Humans; D051379:Mice; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009693:Nucleic Acid Hybridization; D016415:Sequence Alignment
chemical_list: D018076:DNA, Complementary; D018398:Homeodomain Proteins; C484193:MEOX2 protein, human; C484194:Meox2 protein, mouse