title: Suppression in transformed avian fibroblasts of a gene (crp) encoding a cysteine-rich protein containing LIM domains.
abstract: Using cDNA subtraction and differential hybridization techniques, a cDNA library derived from normal quail embryo fibroblasts was screened for clones corresponding to genes whose expression was suppressed in v-myc-transformed, as compared with normal, quail embryo fibroblasts. One of the isolated cDNA clones corresponded to a 0.9-kb mRNA that was present in normal quail and chicken embryo fibroblasts, but was virtually absent from all transformed avian cells tested: quail embryo fibroblasts transformed by the v-myc, v-myc/v-mil or v-src oncogenes, cells derived from a methylcholanthrene-induced quail fibrosarcoma or v-myc-transformed chicken macrophages. Nucleotide sequence analysis of the original and supplementary cDNA clones indicated that the corresponding gene encodes a 194 amino acid cysteine-rich protein (M(r) 20,911). A database search revealed that the gene is the avian homolog of a human primary response gene (crp) of unknown function. Both the quail and human CRP proteins contain two copies of a cysteine-rich amino acid sequence motif (LIM) with putative zinc-binding activity that was previously identified in several proteins with presumed regulatory functions essential for cell growth or differentiation.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Biochemistry, School of Medicine, University of Cologne, Germany.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Weiskirchen
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Bister
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D030161:Avian Proteins; D001483:Base Sequence; D002460:Cell Line; D002472:Cell Transformation, Viral; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D003370:Coturnix / Q000235:genetics; D015972:Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic; D016259:Genes, myc; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009124:Muscle Proteins; D016271:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-myc / Q000235:genetics*; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000235:genetics; D015183:Restriction Mapping; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D016335:Zinc Fingers
chemical_list: D030161:Avian Proteins; D009124:Muscle Proteins; D016271:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-myc; D012333:RNA, Messenger; C081447:cysteine-rich protein, avian