title: Cloning, characterization, and mapping of a murine promiscuous chemokine receptor gene: homolog of the human Duffy gene.
abstract: We report here the isolation and genomic organization of the orthologous mouse Duffy gene, named Dfy. It is a single copy gene located in chromosome 1 in a region homologous to the human Duffy gene (FY). Sequence analyses indicate that Dfy consists of two exons: exon 1 of 55 nucleotides, which encodes 7 amino acid residues; and exon 2 of 1038 nucleotides, which encodes 327 residues. The single intron consists of 462 nucleotides. The 5'-end promoter region contains motifs involved in vertebrate development in addition to potential binding sites of factors for globin transcription. The open reading frame (ORF) shows 60% homology with the human Duffy protein. However, mouse erythrocytes are serologically Duffy-negative and mouse erythrocyte membrane proteins do not cross-react with two Duffy-specific rabbit polyclonal antibodies. The deduced protein predicts a M(r) of 36,692 and carries three potential N-glycosylation sites to asparagine residues. Hydropathy analysis predicts an exocellular amino-terminal domain of 57 residues, seven transmembrane alpha-helices, and an endocellular carboxy-terminal domain of 29 residues. In bone marrow and spleen, Dfy expresses a major 1.4-kb and a minor 1.8-kb mRNA. Contrary to humans, Dfy is expressed in liver, synthesizing a 1.4-kb mRNA, and is repressed in kidney. Dfy is highly expressed in mouse brain and produces a major 8.5-kb and a minor 10.2-kb mRNA. The human erythroleukemia K562 cells, transfected with cDNA encoding the mouse Duffy-like protein and mouse erythrocytes, have the same chemokine binding profiles indicating that they contain the same protein.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Luo
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Chaudhuri
authors.forename: K R
authors.initials: KR
authors.lastname: Johnson
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Neote
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Zbrzezna
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: He
authors.forename: A O
authors.initials: AO
authors.lastname: Pogo
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D004375:Duffy Blood-Group System / Q000235:genetics*; D006801:Humans; D008562:Membrane Glycoproteins / Q000235:genetics*; D051379:Mice; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000032:analysis; D011956:Receptors, Cell Surface; D018121:Receptors, Cytokine / Q000235:genetics*; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
chemical_list: C473745:ACKR1 protein, human; D004375:Duffy Blood-Group System; D008562:Membrane Glycoproteins; D012333:RNA, Messenger; D011956:Receptors, Cell Surface; D018121:Receptors, Cytokine