title: Nucleotide sequence and genomic structure of the chicken insulin-like growth factor-II (IGF-II) coding region.
abstract: Insulin-like growth factor II (IGF-II) is a mitogenic polypeptide with structural similarity to insulin that appears to be involved in regulating embryonic growth. While mammalian IGF-II proteins and IGF-II genes have been well characterized, little is known about avian IGF-II proteins and the genomic sequences that encode them. In this paper we report the isolation and characterization of chicken IGF-II cDNA and genomic clones. The predicted chicken prepro-IGF-II protein contains 187 residues and comprises a signal peptide (24 residues), IGF-II peptide (67 residues), and C-terminal peptide (96 residues), which share 33, 82, and 25/28% amino acid sequence identity, respectively, with their rat/human counterparts. Like the human and rat IGF-II genes, the chicken IGF-II gene has three coding exons. These are interrupted by introns at similar positions to those found in the human and rat IGF-II genes.
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular Pathology, University College London Medical School, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: D C
authors.initials: DC
authors.lastname: Darling
authors.forename: P M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Brickell
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D002645:Chickens; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D017931:DNA Primers / Q000737:chemistry; D018076:DNA, Complementary / Q000737:chemistry; D015698:Genomic Library; D006801:Humans; D007335:Insulin-Like Growth Factor II / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D011498:Protein Precursors / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D051381:Rats; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
chemical_list: D017931:DNA Primers; D018076:DNA, Complementary; D011498:Protein Precursors; C042532:preproinsulin-like growth factor II; D007335:Insulin-Like Growth Factor II