title: Isolation and characterization of a cDNA clone coding for the calcium-binding subunit of calcineurin from bovine brain: an identical amino acid sequence to the human protein.
abstract: A cDNA clone encoding the calcium-binding subunit of calcineurin, calcineurin B, was isolated from a bovine brain library by immunoscreening. The 841 bp cDNA has a 56 bp 5'-noncoding region, an open reading frame of 510 bp, and a 275 bp 3'-noncoding sequence. The deduced amino acid sequence of bovine calcineurin B differs from the previously reported protein sequence (Aitken et al., 1984) by three residues. The sequence contained additional valine at the carboxyl terminus and substitutions of Met-11 and Ser-153 (the positions according to Aitken et al., 1984) by cysteine. The amino acid sequence of bovine calcineurin B was found to be identical to that of human calcineurin B sequence (Guerini et al., 1989). In fact, 97.1% homology was observed between the coding regions of human and bovine calcineurin B. In addition, a very high homology of 95.2% was observed for the 3'-noncoding region while the 5'-noncoding region showed 58.9% homology. The beta-galactosidase fusion protein, having the apparent molecular weight of 29 kDa, was detected on Western blots by subunit B-specific monoclonal antibody (Matsui et al., 1985). Northern analysis revealed that there is a single calcineurin B transcript in bovine brain which is 2.3 kb in length. This is in agreement with the observation of only one immunologically detectable subunit B protein in bovine brain (Matsui et al., 1985).
authors: Department of Oral Biology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
authors: C E
authors: CE
authors: Nargang
authors: D A
authors: DA
authors: Bottorff
authors: K
authors: K
authors: Adachi
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D001665:Binding Sites / Q000235:genetics; D019703:Calcineurin; D002118:Calcium / Q000378:metabolism; D002148:Calmodulin-Binding Proteins / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D002417:Cattle; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D018076:DNA, Complementary; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010749:Phosphoprotein Phosphatases / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
chemical_list: D002148:Calmodulin-Binding Proteins; D018076:DNA, Complementary; D012333:RNA, Messenger; D019703:Calcineurin; D010749:Phosphoprotein Phosphatases; D002118:Calcium