title: Identification of a human heart FABP pseudogene located on chromosome 13.
abstract: The fatty acid-binding proteins (FABPs) constitute a conserved group of cytosolic low molecular mass proteins, which consists of several types: liver, heart, myelin, epidermal, adipocyte, brain, intestinal and ileal type. The FABP gene structure is well conserved during evolution and exhibits a four-exon/three-intron structure. In the past, multiple hybridizing fragments were detected upon Southern blot analysis using heart FABP (H-FABP) cDNA as a probe. The origin of these fragments was not clear. We screened a human genomic library and isolated an intronless gene (FABP3-ps) with 85% similarity to the human H-FABP cDNA and high similarity (76 and 79%) to the H-FABP cDNAs of mouse and bovine, respectively. By means of fluorescence in situ hybridization this processed pseudogene could be assigned chromosome 13q13-q14, whereas the gene for human H-FABP (FABP3) resides on chromosome 1p32-p33. No expression of the processed pseudogene could be detected in skeletal muscle or fetal brain.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, Medical Faculty, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: C F
authors.initials: CF
authors.lastname: Prinsen
authors.forename: D O
authors.initials: DO
authors.lastname: Weghuis
authors.forename: A G
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Kessel
authors.forename: J H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Veerkamp
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D002352:Carrier Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D002882:Chromosomes, Human, Pair 13; D018076:DNA, Complementary; D000074026:Fatty Acid Binding Protein 3; D000071438:Fatty Acid-Binding Protein 7; D050556:Fatty Acid-Binding Proteins; D006801:Humans; D006822:Hybrid Cells; D007438:Introns; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D018996:Myelin P2 Protein / Q000235:genetics*; D009206:Myocardium / Q000378:metabolism*; D009363:Neoplasm Proteins; D011544:Pseudogenes; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D025521:Tumor Suppressor Proteins
chemical_list: D002352:Carrier Proteins; D018076:DNA, Complementary; C493408:FABP3 protein, human; C107608:FABP7 protein, human; C493409:Fabp3 protein, mouse; D000074026:Fatty Acid Binding Protein 3; D000071438:Fatty Acid-Binding Protein 7; D050556:Fatty Acid-Binding Proteins; D018996:Myelin P2 Protein; D009363:Neoplasm Proteins; D025521:Tumor Suppressor Proteins