title: Molecular cloning, genomic organization, and chromosomal localization of the human pancreatitis-associated protein (PAP) gene.
abstract: Pancreatitis-associated protein (PAP) is a secretory pancreatic protein present in small amounts in normal pancreas and overexpressed during the acute phase of the pancreatitis. In this paper, we describe the cloning, characterization, and chromosomal mapping of the human PAP gene. The gene spans 2748 bp and contains six exons interrupted by five introns. The gene has a typical promoter containing the sequences TATAAA and CCAAT 28 and 52 bp upstream of the cap site, respectively. We found striking similarities in genomic organization as well as in the promoter sequences between the human and rat PAP genes. The human PAP gene was mapped to chromosome 2p12 using rodent-human hybrid cells and in situ chromosomal hybridization. This localization coincides with that of the reg/lithostathine gene, which encodes a pancreatic secretory protein structurally related to PAP, suggesting that both genes derived from the same ancestral gene by duplication.
authors.affiliation: U.315 INSERM, Marseille, France.
authors.forename: N J
authors.initials: NJ
authors.lastname: Dusetti
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Frigerio
authors.forename: M F
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Fox
authors.forename: D M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Swallow
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Dagorn
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Iovanna
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D000951:Antigens, Neoplasm; D001483:Base Sequence; D014408:Biomarkers, Tumor; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D002889:Chromosomes, Human, Pair 2; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D016384:Consensus Sequence; D005796:Genes; D006801:Humans; D006822:Hybrid Cells; D037181:Lectins, C-Type; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D000073718:Pancreatitis-Associated Proteins; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D011401:Promoter Regions, Genetic; D011506:Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D012315:RNA Caps; D012326:RNA Splicing; D051381:Rats / Q000235:genetics; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid; D013045:Species Specificity
chemical_list: D000951:Antigens, Neoplasm; D014408:Biomarkers, Tumor; D037181:Lectins, C-Type; D000073718:Pancreatitis-Associated Proteins; D011506:Proteins; C000612141:REG3A protein, human; D012315:RNA Caps; C000612144:Reg3b protein, rat