title: Genomic DNA sequence, promoter expression, and chromosomal mapping of rat muscle carnitine palmitoyltransferase I.
abstract: Carnitine palmitoyltransferase I (CPT-I) is a key enzyme involved in the regulation of fatty acid oxidation. CPT-IA and CPT-IB are isoforms of carnitine palmitoyltransferase I, of which CPT-IA is expressed in liver, kidney, fibroblasts, and heart and CPT-IB is expressed in skeletal muscle, heart, brown and white adipocytes, and testes. Although the genomic DNA sequence of human CPT-IB is available, the transcription start site and upstream regulatory sequences are not known. For rat CPT-IB, only the cDNA sequence has been published. We have cloned the entire rat CPT-IB gene from a Lambda fix II rat kidney genomic library. The genomic structure contains 19 exons, with the transcription start site for CPT-IB located in a short first exon, which is a 13-bp extension to the previously published cDNA 5' sequence. The coding sequence is identical with the rat muscle cDNA. The rat CPT-IB gene contains 18 introns and 19 exons, the latter 18 exons showing 85% homology to the human CPT-IB cDNA. CPT-IB maps to rat chromosome 7 at band q34. A putative promoter region was identified to within 391 bp of the transcription start site. The muscle specificity of the 5' flanking region was verified by comparison of luciferase expression to that of beta-galactosidase in cardiac myocytes and in HepG2 cells.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Texas Medical School at Houston 77030, USA.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Harrison
authors.forename: L M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Buja
authors.forename: F F
authors.initials: FF
authors.lastname: Elder
authors.forename: J B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: McMillin
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D002334:Carnitine O-Palmitoyltransferase / Q000235:genetics*; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D017930:Genes, Reporter; D006801:Humans; D017403:In Situ Hybridization; D007527:Isoenzymes / Q000235:genetics; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000201:enzymology*; D009206:Myocardium / Q000166:cytology / Q000201:enzymology; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D011401:Promoter Regions, Genetic; D051381:Rats; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D014158:Transcription, Genetic; D014162:Transfection
chemical_list: D007527:Isoenzymes; D002334:Carnitine O-Palmitoyltransferase