title: Evolutionary conservation of chymotrypsinogen gene: genomic analysis and protein modeling.
abstract: Chymotrypsinogen is widely present in various animal pancreases. To study evolutionary relationship of chymotrypsinogen gene in species, we used a cDNA probe of human prechymotrypsinogen to investigate the species distribution of chymotrypsinogen gene, and designed oligodeoxynucleotide primers to investigate the genomic organization in the three domains of active sites. The genomic analyses showed that chymotrypsinogen gene is evolutionary conserved in species. On the basis of the deduced amino acid residues, a three-dimensional model for human chymotrypsinogen was further built by computer graphics. The model showed high similarity to the X-ray crystal structure of bovine chymotrypsinogen A, thus, demonstrated that the three-dimensional structure is more conserved in evolution than protein sequences.
authors.affiliation: Gene Bank, Tsukuba Life Science Center, Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Ibaraki, Japan.
authors.forename: D X
authors.initials: DX
authors.lastname: Hou
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yamashita
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Okamoto
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yokoyama
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Soeda
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sarai
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D005075:Biological Evolution; D002417:Cattle / Q000235:genetics; D002645:Chickens / Q000235:genetics; D002919:Chymotrypsinogen / Q000235:genetics*; D017124:Conserved Sequence; D016678:Genome; D015894:Genome, Human; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008958:Models, Molecular; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D011487:Protein Conformation; D051381:Rats / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D002919:Chymotrypsinogen