title: Sequence and characterization of the complete human thrombospondin 2 cDNA: potential regulatory role for the 3' untranslated region.
abstract: We report the remainder of the cDNA sequence for human thrombospondin 2 (hTSP2) including the 5' and 3' untranslated regions. The homology between the two human thrombospondins is highest at the carboxyl-terminal end. The 5' untranslated region of hTSP2 is a GC-rich, 239-bp segment that encodes an in-frame methionine residue embedded in a Kozak consensus sequence. The 3' untranslated region is AT-rich and contains nucleotide sequences implicated in the regulation of mRNA stability. It also contains an 89-bp AT-rich segment with 92% of its nucleotides identical to the same region of the mouse TSP2 3' untranslated region, which suggests an important functional or structural property associated with this region.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle 98195.
authors.forename: T L
authors.initials: TL
authors.lastname: LaBell
authors.forename: P H
authors.initials: PH
authors.lastname: Byers
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001483:Base Sequence; D001665:Binding Sites; D016384:Consensus Sequence; D018076:DNA, Complementary / Q000235:genetics; D005796:Genes; D006801:Humans; D008562:Membrane Glycoproteins / Q000235:genetics*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D012045:Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017385:Sequence Homology; D019699:Thrombospondins
chemical_list: D018076:DNA, Complementary; D008562:Membrane Glycoproteins; D019699:Thrombospondins