title: Cloning and characterization of T-cell lymphoma invasion and metastasis 2 (TIAM2), a novel guanine nucleotide exchange factor related to TIAM1.
abstract: TIAM1 is a guanine nucleotide exchange factor that was identified in a screen for genes that increase the invasiveness of T lymphoma cell lines (Habets et al., 1994, Cell 77(4): 537-549). We have identified a gene, T-cell lymphoma invasion and metastasis 2 (HGMW-approved symbol TIAM2), with significant identity to the carboxyl-terminal region of the TIAM1 and mapped it to 6q25. TIAM2 is expressed as an approximately 3.3-kb transcript in cerebrum and as an approximately 4.4-kb transcript in the cerebellum and testis. The approximately 4. 4-kb message encodes a longer form of the approximately 3.3-kb mRNA predicted protein, and both contain homology to the Dbl-homologous region (70%) and Pleckstrin-homologous (54%) regions of TIAM1. We have purified TIAM2 and shown it to have GDP-GTP exchange activity. In situ hybridizations demonstrate TIAM2 expression in the E13.5 telencephalon of mouse embryos and in the cerebral cortex, hippocampus, and ependyma of adult mouse brains.
authors.affiliation: Chiron Corporation, Emeryville, California 94608, USA.
authors.forename: C Y
authors.initials: CY
authors.lastname: Chiu
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Leng
authors.forename: K A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Martin
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gorman
authors.forename: D M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Duhl
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001921:Brain / Q000378:metabolism; D002896:Chromosomes, Human, Pair 6; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D020662:Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factors / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D016399:Lymphoma, T-Cell / Q000235:genetics / Q000473:pathology*; D051379:Mice; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009361:Neoplasm Invasiveness; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D000075684:T-Lymphoma Invasion and Metastasis-inducing Protein 1; D020744:rac GTP-Binding Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D018631:ras Proteins / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D020662:Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factors; D011506:Proteins; D000075684:T-Lymphoma Invasion and Metastasis-inducing Protein 1; C087334:TIAM1 protein, human; C122170:TIAM2 protein, human; C513260:Tiam1 protein, mouse; D020744:rac GTP-Binding Proteins; D018631:ras Proteins