title: Organization, structure and alternate splicing of the murine RFC-1 gene encoding a folate transporter.
abstract: The structural organization of the murine RFC-1 gene encoding a folate transporter has been determined. The entire nucleotide sequence of the L1210 cell RFC-1 cDNA, the 3'- and 5'-untranslated regions and the coding sequence were found to be distributed in eight exons, including six primary exons and alternates to exon 1 and exon 5, spanning 10.4 kb. Splice variants were identified in an L1210 cell cDNA library. The most common incorporates exons 1 through 6, encoding a 58-kDa polypeptide. The two least common incorporate exons 1 and 2, a truncated version of exon 3 and exons 4 through 6; or exons 1 through 4, an alternate to exon 5, and exon 6, encoding polypeptides of 53.6 and 43.4 kDa, respectively. A fourth variant reported earlier (GenBank/EMBL accession No. L36539) by others incorporates what we have found to be an alternate of exon 1 and exons 2 through 6. A relatively GC-rich region of the genome just 5' of exon 1 as well as exon 1a appears to be distinctly promoter-like and encodes a number of putative cis-acting elements. The findings pertaining to alternates of exon 1 suggest that the transcription of RFC-1 variants results from two different promoters.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory for Molecular Therapeutics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10021, USA.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Tolner
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Roy
authors.forename: F M
authors.initials: FM
authors.lastname: Sirotnak
mesh_terms: D017398:Alternative Splicing; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D001692:Biological Transport / Q000235:genetics; D002352:Carrier Proteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics*; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D015246:Deoxyribonuclease EcoRI / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D005091:Exons; D005492:Folic Acid / Q000378:metabolism*; D015723:Gene Library; D008565:Membrane Proteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics*; D026901:Membrane Transport Proteins; D051379:Mice; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D011401:Promoter Regions, Genetic / Q000235:genetics; D015183:Restriction Mapping; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017421:Sequence Analysis
chemical_list: D002352:Carrier Proteins; D008565:Membrane Proteins; D026901:Membrane Transport Proteins; C492292:Slc19a2 protein, mouse; D005492:Folic Acid; D015246:Deoxyribonuclease EcoRI