title: The primary structure of UK114 tumor antigen.
abstract: UK114 is a tumor antigen expressed by various malignant neoplasms. The complete amino acid sequence of UK114 purified from goat liver has been determined by automated Edman degradation of CNBr and endoproteinase Lys-C peptides. The protein contains 137 amino acid residues. which corresponds to a molecular mass of 14,229 Da. MALDI-TOF analysis resulted in a molecular weight of 14,290, suggesting that the N-terminal Met residue is acetylated. Sequence comparison shows that UK114 from goat liver (1) has 77% identity with a previously described 23 kDa protein from rat liver (Levy-Favatier et al. (1993) Eur. J. Biochem. 212, 665-673), (2) shares a very high degree of similarity with a family of prokaryotic and eukaryotic hypothetic proteins whose function have not yet been characterized, and (3) exhibits a significant similarity to a group of tumor-associated antigens which belongs to a superfamily of heat shock proteins, acting as possible targets for the host's antitumor immunity.
authors.affiliation: Istituto di fisiologia Veterinaria e Biochimica, Università di Milano, Italy.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Ceciliani
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Faotto
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Negri
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Colombo
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Berra
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bartorelli
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ronchi
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D000951:Antigens, Neoplasm / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D001322:Autoanalysis; D003488:Cyanogen Bromide; D006041:Goats; D006801:Humans; D008099:Liver / Q000737:chemistry; D008666:Metalloendopeptidases; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009363:Neoplasm Proteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D010446:Peptide Fragments / Q000737:chemistry / Q000302:isolation & purification; D051381:Rats; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D019032:Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization
chemical_list: D000951:Antigens, Neoplasm; D009363:Neoplasm Proteins; D010446:Peptide Fragments; C101630:UK114 antigen; D008666:Metalloendopeptidases; C039830:peptidyl-Lys metalloendopeptidase; D003488:Cyanogen Bromide