title: Gene for the catalytic subunit of the human DNA-activated protein kinase maps to the site of the XRCC7 gene on chromosome 8.
abstract: The DNA-activated serine/threonine protein kinase (DNA-PK) is composed of a large (approximately 460 kDa) catalytic polypeptide (DNA-PKcs) and Ku, a heterodimeric DNA-binding component (p70/p80) that targets DNA-PKcs to DNA. A 41-kbp segment of the DNA-PKcs gene was isolated, and a 7902-bp segment was sequenced. The sequence contains a polymorphic Pvu II restriction enzyme site, and comparing the sequence with that of the cDNA revealed the positions of nine exons. The DNA-PKcs gene was mapped to band q11 of chromosome 8 by in situ hybridization. This location is coincident with that of XRCC7, the gene that complements the DNA double-strand break repair and V(D)J recombination defects (where V is variable, D is diversity, and J is joining) of hamster V3 and murine severe combined immunodeficient (scid) cells.
authors.affiliation: Biology Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, USA.
authors.forename: J D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Sipley
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Menninger
authors.forename: K O
authors.initials: KO
authors.lastname: Hartley
authors.forename: D C
authors.initials: DC
authors.lastname: Ward
authors.forename: S P
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Jackson
authors.forename: C W
authors.initials: CW
authors.lastname: Anderson
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D001665:Binding Sites / Q000235:genetics; D002384:Catalysis; D002871:Chromosome Banding; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D002898:Chromosomes, Human, Pair 8 / Q000648:ultrastructure; D006224:Cricetinae; D017931:DNA Primers / Q000235:genetics; D018076:DNA, Complementary / Q000235:genetics; D051747:DNA-Activated Protein Kinase; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D005091:Exons; D006801:Humans; D017404:In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence; D007438:Introns; D051379:Mice; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009687:Nuclear Proteins; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D012150:Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length; D011487:Protein Conformation; D017346:Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D017931:DNA Primers; D018076:DNA, Complementary; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D009687:Nuclear Proteins; D051747:DNA-Activated Protein Kinase; C497263:PRKDC protein, human; D017346:Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases