title: Effect of heat shock treatment on the production of variant testosterone-repressed prostate message-2 (TRPM-2) mRNA in culture cells.
abstract: The testosterone-repressive prostate message-2 (TRPM-2) variant mRNA lacking the exon 5 was induced in rat primary culture hepatocytes by heat shock treatment. A similar variant mRNA lacking exon 5 was also induced by heat shock treatment of the human culture cell line HepG2. On the other hand, in mouse cell line L929, heat shock treatment induced a variant TRPM-2 mRNA lacking only a small region located in exon 5. However, irrespective of the difference of mechanism of variant production, all the variant TRPM-2 mRNA species derived from each animal species encoded a putative protein constituted from the N-terminal one-third of TRPM-2 protein attached to a C-terminal TRPM-2 unrelated tail. In humans, the variant TRPM-2 species was not detected in normal tissues but was present in certain kinds of tumour cells. These results indicate that the splicing variants were induced as a direct result of heat shock treatment on cells per se and that the phenomenon of heat shock induction was observed in culture cells derived from different animal species.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, National Defense Medical College, Saitama, Japan.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kimura
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Asami
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yamamoto
mesh_terms: D017398:Alternative Splicing / Q000502:physiology; D000818:Animals; D006528:Carcinoma, Hepatocellular; D051152:Clusterin; D003169:Complement Inactivator Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D003513:Cycloheximide / Q000494:pharmacology; D005347:Fibroblasts / Q000166:cytology / Q000502:physiology; D015972:Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic / Q000187:drug effects / Q000235:genetics; D006023:Glycoproteins / Q000235:genetics*; D018869:Heat-Shock Response / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008099:Liver / Q000166:cytology; D051379:Mice; D018832:Molecular Chaperones; D009363:Neoplasm Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D011500:Protein Synthesis Inhibitors / Q000494:pharmacology; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000378:metabolism; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured
chemical_list: C495242:CLU protein, human; C495243:Clu protein, mouse; D051152:Clusterin; D003169:Complement Inactivator Proteins; D006023:Glycoproteins; D018832:Molecular Chaperones; D009363:Neoplasm Proteins; D011500:Protein Synthesis Inhibitors; D012333:RNA, Messenger; D003513:Cycloheximide