title: Characterization of seven processed pseudogenes of nucleophosmin/B23 in the human genome.
abstract: Genomic blot analysis revealed that the nucleophosmin/B23 gene belongs to a multigene family that has about 10 copies per haploid human genome. In searching for human nucleophosmin/B23 functional genes, seven processed pseudogenes (NG1-1.6, NG2-6, NG3-3, NG4-5, NG5-4, NG6-4, and NG7-6) were isolated and characterized. Four of them, NG2-6, NG3-3, NG4-5, and NG7-6, contain the sequences corresponding to the full-length cDNA. NG1-1.6 is 5'-truncated, whereas NG5-4 and NG6-5 are 3'-truncated pseudogenes. Of the seven pseudogenes, NG3-3 clone has the longest 5' untranslated sequence, which contains 104 nucleotides upstream of the translation initiation codon (AUG). Two processed pseudogenes (NG2-6 and NG3-3) have different polyadenylation sites from the mRNA, indicating the usage of alternative polyadenylation signals at the 3' sequence.
authors: Department of Pharmacology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030.
authors: Q R
authors: QR
authors: Liu
authors: P K
authors: PK
authors: Chan
mesh_terms: D001483:Base Sequence; D015698:Genomic Library; D006367:HeLa Cells; D006801:Humans; D007962:Leukocytes; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009687:Nuclear Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D000090243:Nucleophosmin; D011061:Poly A; D011544:Pseudogenes / Q000235:genetics; D012045:Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
chemical_list: C000716967:NPM1 protein, human; D009687:Nuclear Proteins; D000090243:Nucleophosmin; D011061:Poly A