title: Complete sequence analysis of a gene (OS-9) ubiquitously expressed in human tissues and amplified in sarcomas.
abstract: Amplification and overexpression of genes involved in cellular growth control occur frequently in human tumors. Using a chromosome microdissection-based hybrid-selection strategy, we recently identified two novel genes (OS-9 and OS-4) within 12q13-15, a region frequently amplified in human cancers. We now report further characterization of the full-length OS-9 cDNA sequence consists of 2785 bp from which an open reading frame (ORF) with 667 amino-acid residues was deduced, The predicted polypeptide was water soluble and acidic. We also demonstrate that the OS-9 gene encoded a 2.8-kb mRNA transcribed in all 16 human tissues examined, suggesting that OS-9 is ubiquitously expressed in human tissues. OS-9 was co-amplified with CDK4 in three of five sarcoma tissues. Homology analysis of the amino-acid sequence reveals significant similarities between OS-9 and two ORFs deduced from genomic sequences in Caenorhabditis elegans and Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The region of similarity extended over 200 residues (approximately one-third of each ORF), and eight cysteines were conserved in all three ORFs. These observations suggest that this region comprises a functional domain present in a novel evolutionarily conserved gene family defined by OS-9.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Cancer Genetics, National Center for Human Genome Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-4470,USA.
authors.forename: Y A
authors.initials: YA
authors.lastname: Su
authors.forename: C M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Hutter
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Trent
authors.forename: P S
authors.initials: PS
authors.lastname: Meltzer
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001483:Base Sequence; D016384:Consensus Sequence; D004273:DNA, Neoplasm / Q000235:genetics; D005784:Gene Amplification; D015972:Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic; D005796:Genes; D006801:Humans; D037102:Lectins; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009363:Neoplasm Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D012334:RNA, Neoplasm / Q000235:genetics*; D012509:Sarcoma / Q000235:genetics*; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
chemical_list: D004273:DNA, Neoplasm; D037102:Lectins; D009363:Neoplasm Proteins; C098898:OS9 protein, human; D012334:RNA, Neoplasm