title: Human and mouse homologues of the Drosophila melanogaster tweety (tty) gene: a novel gene family encoding predicted transmembrane proteins.
abstract: We have cloned cDNA for TTYH1, a human homologue of the Drosophila melanogaster tweety (tty) gene. The 450-residue predicted protein shows 27% amino acid sequence identity (51% similarity) to the Drosophila protein, which contains an additional C-terminal repetitive region. A second Drosophila homologue exhibits 42% identity (65% similarity) to the tty protein. Mouse (Ttyh1), macaque, and Caenorhabditis elegans homologues were also identified, and the complete coding sequence for the mouse gene was determined. The mouse protein is 91% identical to the human protein. Hydrophobicity analysis of the tty-related proteins indicates that they represent a new family of membrane proteins with five potential membrane-spanning regions. The yeast FTR1 and FTH1 iron transporter proteins and the mammalian neurotensin receptors 1 and 2 have a similar hydrophobicity profile, although there is no detectable sequence homology to the tty-related proteins. This suggests that the tweety-related proteins could be involved in transport of iron or other divalent cations or alternatively that they may be membrane-bound receptors. TTYH1 was mapped to chromosome 19q13.4 by FISH and by radiation hybrid mapping using the Stanford G3 panel.
authors.affiliation: Molecular Genetics and Evolution Group, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia. Hugh.Campbell@anu.edu.au
authors.forename: H D
authors.initials: HD
authors.lastname: Campbell
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kamei
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Claudianos
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Woollatt
authors.forename: G R
authors.initials: GR
authors.lastname: Sutherland
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Suzuki
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hida
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sugano
authors.forename: I G
authors.initials: IG
authors.lastname: Young
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D002871:Chromosome Banding; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D002888:Chromosomes, Human, Pair 19 / Q000235:genetics; D006224:Cricetinae; D018076:DNA, Complementary / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D004331:Drosophila melanogaster / Q000235:genetics*; D006801:Humans; D006822:Hybrid Cells; D017404:In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence; D019476:Insect Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D008297:Male; D008565:Membrane Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D051379:Mice; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010802:Phylogeny; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
chemical_list: D018076:DNA, Complementary; D019476:Insect Proteins; D008565:Membrane Proteins; C417913:TTYH1 protein, human; C485951:Ttyh1 protein, mouse