title: Murine enamelin: cDNA and derived protein sequences.
abstract: Enamelin is the largest enamel protein. Recently we reported the characterization of a cDNA clone encoding porcine enamelin. The secreted protein has 1104 amino acids--over 6 times the length of amelogenin (173 amino acids) and almost 3 times the lengths of sheathlin (395 amino acids) and tuftelin (389 amino acids). Immunohistochemistry has shown that uncleaved porcine enamelin concentrates at the growing tips of the enamel crystallites while its cleavage products localize to rod and interrod enamel. Here we report the isolation and characterization of cDNA encoding murine amelogenin and demonstrate the tooth specificity of porcine enamelin. The murine clone is 4154 nucleotides in length and encodes a protein of 1274 amino acids. In the absence of post-translational modifications murine enamelin has an isotope averaged molecular mass of 137 kDa and an isoelectric point of 9.4. Multiple tissue Northern blot analyses detect porcine enamelin mRNA in developing teeth but not in liver, heart, brain, spleen, skeletal muscle and lung. Mouse and porcine enamelin share 61% amino acid identity and 75% DNA sequence identity. Mouse enamelin has 14 tandemly arranged copies of an 11 amino acid segment that is found only once in porcine enamelin.
authors.affiliation: University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, School of Dentistry, Department of Pediatric Dentistry, 78284-7888, USA. huj@uthscsa.edu
authors.forename: C C
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Simmer
authors.forename: J D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Bartlett
authors.forename: Q
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Qian
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: O H
authors.initials: OH
authors.lastname: Ryu
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Xue
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fukae
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Uchida
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: MacDougall
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D015152:Blotting, Northern / Q000379:methods; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D018076:DNA, Complementary; D003746:Dental Enamel Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D051379:Mice; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
chemical_list: D018076:DNA, Complementary; D003746:Dental Enamel Proteins; C038456:tuftelin