title: Isolation of a mouse cDNA encoding mSTI1, a stress-inducible protein containing the TPR motif.
abstract: We report the isolation and sequencing of the complete 2079-bp cDNA fragment encoding mSTI1, a murine stress-inducible protein. The predicted ORF encodes a protein of 543 amino acids (aa) and Mr 62,582. The predicted protein has significant homology to stress-inducible proteins from humans (IEF SSP 3521), soybean (GMSTI), yeast (STI1) and a parasite, Leishmania donovani (LSIP). All of these proteins contain 34-aa repeat motifs, termed tetratricopeptide repeats (TPRs), that are proposed to be involved in intra- and intermolecular protein interactions. mSTI1 has ten potential TPR motifs, a putative nuclear localization signal (NLS), six potential phosphorylation sites for casein kinase II and a central proline-rich region. Western analysis detected a protein of approx. 63 kDa in all the major mouse organs and in mouse, monkey and human cell lines.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. 089blg@cosmos.wits.ac.za
authors.forename: G L
authors.initials: GL
authors.lastname: Blatch
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lässle
authors.forename: B R
authors.initials: BR
authors.lastname: Zetter
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Kundra
mesh_terms: D016475:3T3 Cells; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D015153:Blotting, Western; D018076:DNA, Complementary; D006360:Heat-Shock Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics*; D006801:Humans; D051379:Mice; D018832:Molecular Chaperones; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA
chemical_list: D018076:DNA, Complementary; D006360:Heat-Shock Proteins; D018832:Molecular Chaperones; C079373:STIP1 protein, human; C489791:Stip1 protein, mouse