title: Cloning of the full-length coding sequence of rat liver-specific organic anion transporter-1 (rlst-1) and a splice variant and partial characterization of the rat lst-1 gene.
abstract: The full-length coding sequence of rat liver-specific organic anion transporter-1 (lst-1) and its splice variant have been cloned. The full-length rat lst-1 (designated rlst-1a) encodes a protein containing 687 amino acids and has 12-putative transmembrane domains, multiple potential N-glycosylation and phosphorylation sites. Therefore, rat lst-1a has 35 additional amino acid residues compared to the previously reported rat lst-1. A splice variant (designated rlst-1c) reported in this communication encodes a protein containing 654 amino acids and has 10-putative transmembrane domains. PCR analysis suggests that rlst-1a is the most abundant form in liver. Phylogenetic analysis reveals that rat lst-1a is an ortholog of human LST-1 (hLST-1) and mouse lst-1 (mlst-1). The rlst-1 gene is composed of 15 exons and 14 introns. Analysis of exon-intron boundary reveals that the splice variant rlst-1c lacks the entire exon 7, while the previously reported rat lst-1 (designated herein as rlst-1b) lacks approximately half of exon 10, and the splicing has occurred through alternative usage of a splice donor site within exon 10.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Therapeutics, Kansas City, Kansas 66160-7417, USA.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Choudhuri
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ogura
authors.forename: C D
authors.initials: CD
authors.lastname: Klaassen
mesh_terms: D017398:Alternative Splicing; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D027321:Anion Transport Proteins; D015152:Blotting, Northern; D002352:Carrier Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics*; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D003062:Codon; D018076:DNA, Complementary / Q000378:metabolism; D005091:Exons; D006801:Humans; D007438:Introns; D008099:Liver / Q000378:metabolism; D008565:Membrane Proteins / Q000737:chemistry; D051379:Mice; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010802:Phylogeny; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D020033:Protein Isoforms; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D014018:Tissue Distribution
chemical_list: D027321:Anion Transport Proteins; D002352:Carrier Proteins; D003062:Codon; D018076:DNA, Complementary; D008565:Membrane Proteins; D020033:Protein Isoforms