title: Cloning, genomic organization, and tissue distribution of human Ssf-1.
abstract: During the screening of a human placenta cDNA library, realized in order to isolate the P2Y(11) coding sequence, an unrelated cDNA was cloned. We identified a 1422 bp open reading frame encoding a human protein displaying 40% amino acid identity with the Saccharomyces cerevisiae Ssf-1, a protein involved in the second step of mRNA splicing. Sequencing of the corresponding genomic DNA showed that the gene encoding human Ssf-1 is located upstream to the P2Y(11) gene on chromosome 19p31. Comparison of the cDNA and genomic DNA sequences revealed that the human Ssf-1 gene is split into 12 exons. Northern blotting experiments showed that the 1.7 kb Ssf-1 mRNA presents an ubiquitous tissue expression. We also show that, in HL-60 human promyelocytic leukemia cells, Ssf-1 mRNA is rapidly upregulated following a treatment by granulocyte-colony stimulating factor and dibutyryl-cyclicAMP, two agents known to induce the granulocytic differentiation of these cells.
authors.affiliation: Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Biologie Humaine et Nucléaire, Brussels, Belgium. nsuarez@ulb.ac.be
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Suarez-Huerta
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Boeynaems
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Communi
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001483:Base Sequence; D002454:Cell Differentiation / Q000187:drug effects; D002888:Chromosomes, Human, Pair 19 / Q000235:genetics; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D005091:Exons / Q000235:genetics*; D016179:Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor / Q000494:pharmacology; D018922:HL-60 Cells; D006801:Humans; D007438:Introns / Q000235:genetics*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009687:Nuclear Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics*; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D015854:Up-Regulation / Q000187:drug effects
chemical_list: D009687:Nuclear Proteins; C491917:PPAN protein, human; D012333:RNA, Messenger; C114037:SSF1 protein, S cerevisiae; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins; D016179:Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor