title: The gene encoding mouse intestinal trefoil factor: structural organization, partial sequence analysis and mapping to murine chromosome 17q.
abstract: Trefoil peptides, a growing family of secretory molecules, have been identified mainly in the gastrointestinal tract of humans, rodents and amphibians. In the present study, the nucleotide sequence of a large portion (81%) of the gene encoding murine intestinal trefoil factor (mITF) and its whole genomic organization were determined. The mITF gene contains three exons distributed over 5 kb of genomic DNA. The genomic sequence is highly conserved, as compared with that of the rat and human ITF, and contains several AP-1-binding sites, the consensus binding site for the transcription factor Sp1, and a sequence homologous to a heat-shock element. Fluorescence in situ hybridization was used to assign ITF to chromosome 17 of the murine genome, a region syntenic with the trefoil gene cluster on human chromosome 21q22.3.
authors.affiliation: Histopathology Unit, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London, UK. chinery@icrf.icnet.uk
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Chinery
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Poulsom
authors.forename: H M
authors.initials: HM
authors.lastname: Cox
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D001665:Binding Sites; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D017124:Conserved Sequence; D006133:Growth Substances / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D006360:Heat-Shock Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D007413:Intestinal Mucosa / Q000378:metabolism; D051379:Mice / Q000235:genetics*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009077:Mucins; D009124:Muscle Proteins; D009479:Neuropeptides; D010455:Peptides / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid; D018808:Transcription Factor AP-1 / Q000378:metabolism; D014157:Transcription Factors / Q000378:metabolism; D000071164:Trefoil Factor-2; D000071165:Trefoil Factor-3
chemical_list: D006133:Growth Substances; D006360:Heat-Shock Proteins; D009077:Mucins; D009124:Muscle Proteins; D009479:Neuropeptides; D010455:Peptides; C099037:TFF3 protein, rat; D018808:Transcription Factor AP-1; D014157:Transcription Factors; D000071164:Trefoil Factor-2; D000071165:Trefoil Factor-3