title: Molecular cloning of a cDNA encoding alpha-glucosidase in the digestive gland of the shrimp, Litopenaeus vannamei.
abstract: The complete sequence of the 3-kb cDNA and the 5' genomic structure are reported for the gene encoding the shrimp alpha-glucosidase. Alpha-glucosidase cDNA was isolated from a shrimp digestive gland cDNA library. The 2830-base pair cDNA contains an open reading frame that encodes 919 amino acids. The shrimp alpha-glucosidase cDNA shows a high level of identity with that of the human sucrase-isomaltase, human maltase-glucoamylase, and human acid lysosomal alpha-glucosidase, indicating that the protein shares the same structural domains. The similarities among these proteins are found as clusters and characterize the glycosyl hydrolase family 31. To our knowledge, this is the first report to describe a satellite sequence in the 5' genomic structure before the TATA box in an invertebrate sequence.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire Universitaire de Microbiologie Appliquée de Quimper, France. chevalie@iutquimp.univ-brest.fr
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Le Chevalier
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Sellos
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Van Wormhoudt
mesh_terms: D020121:5' Untranslated Regions / Q000235:genetics; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D004064:Digestive System / Q000201:enzymology*; D015723:Gene Library; D006031:Glycosylation; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D033561:Penaeidae / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000235:genetics*; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D011401:Promoter Regions, Genetic / Q000235:genetics; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D013379:Substrate Specificity; D000520:alpha-Glucosidases / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D020121:5' Untranslated Regions; D000520:alpha-Glucosidases