title: Structure and expression of chicken protein kinase PITSLRE-encoding genes.
abstract: The human PITSLRE protein kinases (PK), members of the p34cdc2 kinase family named according to the single amino acid (aa) code of an important (PSTAIRE) regulatory region [Meyerson et al., EMBO J. 11 (1992) 2909-2917], are candidate tumor suppressor gene(s) localized to human chromosome 1p36.2 and a syntenic region of mouse chromosome 4 [Lahti et al., Nature Genet. 7 (1994) 370-375; Mock et al., Mammal. Genome 5 (1994) 191-192]. At least ten isoforms of this PK family are expressed from three duplicated and tandemly linked genes in humans [Xiang et al., J. Biol. Chem. 269 (1994) 15786-15794]. We have now isolated two different species of PITSLRE PK cDNAs from chicken that encode identical polypeptides, but are clearly expressed from different genes, based on nucleotide (nt) differences. Isolation of one of the corresponding chicken PITSLRE PK genes confirms that only one of the two species of PITSLRE mRNA is expressed from this gene. Comparison of the predicted avian PITSLRE PK aa sequence to human and mouse sequences shows a high degree of sequence identity (> 91%). Like humans, the PITSLRE PK genes in chickens must be closely linked, based on fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) localization of these genes to a single chicken microchromosome. PITSLRE PK mRNAs are expressed in two avian B- and T-cell lines. These results suggest that the PITSLRE PK gene family has been well conserved evolutionarily, that the gene duplication observed in humans is not a recent event, and that expression of redundant PITSLRE mRNAs is observed in different vertebrate species.
authors.affiliation: Department of Tumor Cell Biology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Grenet
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Valentine
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Lahti
authors.forename: V J
authors.initials: VJ
authors.lastname: Kidd
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001402:B-Lymphocytes / Q000737:chemistry; D001483:Base Sequence; D002460:Cell Line; D002645:Chickens / Q000235:genetics*; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D018844:Cyclin-Dependent Kinases; D005347:Fibroblasts; D015971:Gene Expression Regulation, Enzymologic / Q000235:genetics*; D006801:Humans; D017404:In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence; D051379:Mice; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D005810:Multigene Family; D011494:Protein Kinases / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics*; D017346:Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000032:analysis / Q000235:genetics; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid; D013601:T-Lymphocytes / Q000737:chemistry / Q000201:enzymology
chemical_list: D012333:RNA, Messenger; D011494:Protein Kinases; D017346:Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases; C447612:CDK11a protein, human; C501852:Cdk11b protein, mouse; D018844:Cyclin-Dependent Kinases