title: Complete cDNAs for CDC42 from chicken cochlea and mouse liver.
abstract: CDC42 is a member of the ras superfamily of small GTP-binding proteins that are related through the highly conserved GTP-binding domain and are involved in signal transduction pathways. Two full-length CDC42 cDNAs have been isolated: a 2148-bp chick cochlea cDNA and a 2063-bp mouse liver cDNA. Each encodes a CDC42 protein of 191 amino acids. The avian CDC42 protein differs from the mouse at only one amino acid residue, a Thr for a Ser at position 185. Both CDC42 proteins are more similar to the ubiquitous human isoform originally isolated from placenta than to the isoform isolated from fetal brain. Using a probe from the 3' UTR of the mouse liver CDC42 cDNA, we demonstrated that the mouse gene is expressed in all tissues examined. Southern blot analysis of a mouse inter-specific backcross with this gene-specific probe identified at least three CDC42-like (Cdc42l) genes in the mouse genome. Cdc42l1 was mapped to distal mouse Chromosome 4, near Cappb1. Cdc42l2 mapped more proximal on Chromosome 4, whereas Cdc42l3 mapped to the X Chromosome.
authors.affiliation: Kresge Hearing Research Institute, Department of Otolaryngology/Head-Neck Surgery, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0648, USA.
authors.forename: T W
authors.initials: TW
authors.lastname: Gong
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Shin
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Burmeister
authors.forename: M I
authors.initials: MI
authors.lastname: Lomax
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D002645:Chickens; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D003051:Cochlea / Q000378:metabolism*; D018076:DNA, Complementary / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D015870:Gene Expression; D008099:Liver / Q000378:metabolism*; D051379:Mice; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016415:Sequence Alignment
chemical_list: D018076:DNA, Complementary