title: Structural characterization of the rat insulin-like growth factor binding protein-6 gene.
abstract: Recently a family of six distinct insulin-like growth factor binding proteins (IGFBPs) have been identified and the gene structures of the first five (IGFBP-1, -2, -3, -4 and -5) characterized. We now isolated the IGFBP-6 gene from a rat genomic library and determined its organization as well as the DNA sequence at the 5' flanking region of the gene. The rat IGFBP-6 gene spans 5.1 kb of the genomic sequence and contains four exons interrupted by three introns of approximately 2.4, 0.2 and 1.2 kb in length, respectively. Primer extension analysis and ribonuclease protection assay using RNA from rat lung tissues demonstrated two transcriptional start sites located at 85 and 82 nucleotides upstream of the ATG translational initiation codon. The promoter region of the rat IGFBP-6 gene is devoid of a TATA or a CAAT consensus sequence motif, but putative regulatory cis elements, including a Sp1, an estrogen receptor binding site and a retinoic acid responsive element, are present in the promoter region.
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular Endocrinology, Whittier Institute for Diabetes and Endocrinology, La Jolla, California 92037.
authors.forename: X
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ling
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Shimasaki
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D002352:Carrier Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D005796:Genes; D018976:Insulin-Like Growth Factor Binding Protein 6; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D011401:Promoter Regions, Genetic; D051381:Rats; D015183:Restriction Mapping; D013002:Somatomedins / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D002352:Carrier Proteins; D018976:Insulin-Like Growth Factor Binding Protein 6; D013002:Somatomedins